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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2020
Air travel is unpleasant for many reasons, particularly in the post-9/11 age. Yet, blame for the cramped accommodations, bag fees, and lack of direct flights has to be assigned in part to the deregulation of the airline industry in the late 1970s. Airline deregulation and its consequences symbolize the ways in which neoliberal ideas and practices have come to shape economic policies as well as the daily lives of ordinary Americans.
1 See Jacobs, Meg, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (New York, 2016)Google Scholar.
2 McCartin, Joseph A., Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers and the Strike That Changed America (New York, 2011), 196–99CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
3 See, for example, Schulman, Bruce J., The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (New York, 2001)Google Scholar.
4 David Dayen, “Unfriendly Skies,” American Prospect, Fall 2017, https://prospect.org/power/unfriendly-skies/.