Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk by Diane Vaughan, an award-winning professor of sociology and public affairs at Columbia University and nominee for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a sociological industry history book, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher the University of Chicago Press.
This is their featured Free Book of the Month for April, and is an aviation industry history cum sociology and professional overview, exploring the complex work of air traffic controllers and the relationship between the underlying human organizational systems and technology and how the workplace has changed in response to technological developments and public and political pressures, affecting the job itself as well as the perception of it.
Offered worldwide through the month of April, available directly from the publisher’s website.
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