Abstract
Labor solidarity can be breached not only by jurisdictional disputes, ideological differences, and personal rivalries but by struggles for status. The merchant-marine radio operator, marginal man of a hierarchical shipboard society, used his union as an instrument of upward mobility to dissociate himself from common crew members and rise into the officer ranks. Not satisfied to write officer privileges into its collectivebargaining contracts, the union successfully sought congressional confirmation of the higher status, only to have its members continue to encounter something less than full acceptance by deck and engineering officers, organized in separated craft unions.
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