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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubio, Philip F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American postal service employees--History.

African American postal service employees.

African Americans--Employment--History.

African Americans.

Postal service--Employees--Labor unions--United States--History.

Postal service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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...

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908824-9-3

979-88-9313-298-4

1-4696-0405-1

0-8078-9573-3

OCLC:

656846637