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An ethnographic study of the Boston sector of the American air traffic control system to investigate the sources of its safety record.
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Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk
2023, University of Chicago Press
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0226826570 9780226826578
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Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk
2021, University of Chicago Press
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First Sentence
"Reckoning, according to the dictionary, is a cognitive activity: an act or instance of taking into account, calculating, estimating."
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
I.
Beginnings
1.
Dead Reckoning
2.
History as Cause: System Emergence, System Effects
II.
Producing Controllers
3.
From Skill Acquisition to Expertise
4.
Embodiment: The Social Shaping of Controllers
III.
Boundary Work: Airspace, Place, and Dead Reckoning
5.
Boston Center and Bedford Tower
6.
The Terminal: Boston TRACON and Boston Tower
IV.
Emotional Labor, Emotion Work
7.
Mistake and Error: Emotional Labor
8.
Risk and Stress: Emotion Work
V.
“That Little Frisson of Terror”
9.
September 11
10.
The War on Terror: Policing the Sky
11.
Symbolic Boundaries: Distinction, Occupational Community, and Moral Work
VI.
System Effects, Boundary Work, and Risk
12.
The Age of Automation: 2002-Present
13.
Continuities, Change, and Persistence
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Edition Notes
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The Physical Object
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