TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rubio,Philip F.
TI  - There's always work at the post office: African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality 
SN  - 9780807895733
AV  - HE6499 .R82 2010eb
U1  - 331.6/396073 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.)
KW  - fast
KW  - African American postal service employees
KW  - History
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Employment
KW  - Postal service
KW  - Employees
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - United States
KW  - Discrimination in employment
KW  - Postes
KW  - Personnel noir américain
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Travail
KW  - Personnel
KW  - Syndicats
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Labor
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Ethnic Studies
KW  - African American Studies
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index; 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
N2  - 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 military veterans--became a critical force for social change. 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 U.S
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