A Servant and a Man, a Hostess or a Woman: A Study of Expressive Culture in Two Transportation Occupations

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The article examines stories and testimony of airline flight attendants and Pullman sleeping car porters of the railroad. Workers in these passenger-service positions are also responsible to superordinate personnel (pilots, conductors) who are present during the trip. Many of the stories are thematically parallel, but flight attendants engage in an active, ongoing pranking relationship with pilots while Pullman porters had no such tradition and thus had no fictive means for expressing occupational tensions. The lack of this traditional genre is largely due to extraoccupational forces.

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