Working the Skies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / General David Harris

David Harris

Nora Draper looks at the revealing two-decade history of efforts by the consumer privacy industry to give individuals control over their digital image through the sale of privacy protection and reputation management as a service

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Working the Skies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / General David HarrisGet ready for takeoff. The life of the flight attendant, a. k. a., stewardess, was supposedly once one of glamour, exotic travel and sexual freedom, as recently depicted in such films as Catch Me If You Can and View From the Top. The nostalgia for the beautiful, carefree and ever helpful stewardess perhaps reveals a yearning for simpler times, but nonetheless does not square with the difficult, demanding and sometimes dangerous job of today's flight