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There's always work at the post office [[electronic resource] ] : African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality / / Philip F. Rubio



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Autore: Rubio Philip F Visualizza persona
Titolo: There's always work at the post office [[electronic resource] ] : African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality / / Philip F. Rubio Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (473 p.)
Disciplina: 331.6/396073
Soggetto topico: African American postal service employees - History
African Americans - Employment - History
Postal service - Employees - Labor unions - United States - History
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Who worked at the post office (before 1940)? -- Fighting Jim Crow at home during World War II (1940-1946) -- Black-led movement in the early Cold War (1946-1950) -- Fighting Jim Crow and McCarthyism (1947-1954) -- Collapsing Jim Crow postal unionism in the 1950's (1954-1960) -- Interesting convergences in the early sixties post office (1960-1963) -- Black women in the 1960's post office and postal unions (1960-1969) -- Civil rights postal unionism (1963-1966) -- Prelude to a strike (1966-1970) -- The great postal wildcat strike of 1970 -- Post-strike (1970-1971) -- Epilogue -- Conclusion.
Sommario/riassunto: This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often are written as if they happened separately. Centered on New York City and Washington, D.C., the book chronicles a struggle of national significance through its examination of the post office, a workplace with facilities and unions serving every city and town in the United States. Black postal...
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ISBN: 1-4696-0405-1
0-8078-9573-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785199903321
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