There's Always Work at the Post Office : African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality /

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Rubio, a former postal worker, 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. Having fought their way into postal positions and unions, black postal workers--often college-educated m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rubio, Philip F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.)
Postal service > Employees > Labor unions.
Discrimination in employment.
African Americans > Employment.
African American postal service employees.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Postes > Personnel > Syndicats > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Travail > Histoire.
Postes > Personnel noir americain > Histoire.
Discrimination in employment > United States > History.
Postal service > Employees > Labor unions > United States > History.
African Americans > Employment > History.
African American postal service employees > History.
United States.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 1950s (1954-1960)
  • Interesting convergences in the early sixties post office (1960-1963)
  • Black women in the 1960s 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.

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