The airline pilots a study in elite unionization hopkins george e on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers the airline pilots a study in elite unionization. Robert h zieger the airline pilots a study in elite unionization by george e hopkins cambridge harvard university press 1971 viii 244 pp illustrat. He traces the complicated transformation of the pilots from outspoken individualists to close lipped advocates of union solidarity for his research he had unrestricted access to the unions archives he also interviewed surviving founders of the union former barnstormers and other aviation experts. The airline pilots book read reviews from worlds largest community for readers the first comprehensive analysis of the economics of the united states