There's always work at the post office : African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality /
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...
| Основен автор: | Rubio, Philip F. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭2010.
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Print version::
There's always work at the post office. |
Съдържание:
- 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.