This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles...

Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Studying a Company and Workforce in Transition -- 2 How and Why Boeing Changed Everything About the Way It Makes Airplanes -- 3 Boeing's Changing...