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What’s the Matter With Boeing, Pt. 1: Shareholders Don't Build Airplanes
Season 2
Published 1 year, 5 months ago
Description
As Boeing workers strike and airplanes are grounded for new and terrifying reasons, Mia looks back at how the shareholder revolution crushed Boeing's engineers.
Sources:
Liquidated An Ethnography of Wall Street
The 1997 Merger That Paved the Way for the Boeing 737 Max Crisis
The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course
How Jack Welch’s Reign at G.E. Gave Us Elon Musk’s Twitter Feed
The Merger That Brought Boeing Low
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