Arthur Hailey as Richard Nixon: Workplace Safety in Airport
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Published:2017-04
Issue:1
Volume:47
Page:112-130
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ISSN:0007-7720
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Container-title:Canadian Review of American Studies
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Canadian Review of American Studies
Author:
Long Christian B.
Abstract
In his best-selling 1968 novel Airport, Arthur Hailey takes psychological workplace stresses seriously, and he places white-collar workplace safety at the centre of his novel. The disaster narrative in Airport not only lands an airplane against the odds but also shows how important workplace safety is to the safe and continued functioning of the transportation system. In this way, Hailey’s novel narratively and thematically registers changes in contemporary US culture that would soon take legislative form, as when Richard Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,History,Cultural Studies
Reference22 articles.
1. Guttridge, Peter. “Arthur Hailey: Author of Massive Bestsellers in ‘Hotel,’ ‘Airport’ and ‘Wheels.’” The Independent 27 Nov. 2004. 5 Aug. 2015.
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