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A history of affirmative action, 1619-2000
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ISBN: 1578063558 157806354X 1282622366 9786612622366 1604730315 1417509309 Year: 2001 Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,

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There's always work at the post office : African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality
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ISBN: 0807833428 0807859869 1469604051 0807895733 9780807895733 9781469604053 9780807833421 9780807859865 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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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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African American postal service employees - History. --- African American postal service employees -- History. --- African Americans - Employment - History. --- African Americans -- Employment -- History. --- Discrimination in employment - United States - History. --- Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History. --- National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.). --- Postal service - Employees - Labor unions - United States - History. --- Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History. --- African American postal service employees --- African Americans --- Postal service --- Discrimination in employment --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- History --- Employment --- Employees --- Labor unions --- National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.) --- History. --- Mail --- Mail service --- Post-office --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Postal service employees, African American --- Carriers --- Communication and traffic --- Transportation --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- National Alliance of Postal Employees (U.S.) --- Bias, Job --- Employment discrimination --- Equal employment opportunity --- Equal opportunity in employment --- Fair employment practice --- Job bias --- Job discrimination --- Race discrimination in employment --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Employment&delete& --- Employees&delete& --- Labor unions&delete& --- E-books --- Affirmative action programs --- Black people


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Undelivered : from the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the manufactured crisis of the U.S. Postal Service
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ISBN: 9798890847843 1469655489 9781469655475 1469655470 9781469655482 9781469655451 1469655454 9781469655468 1469655462 9798890847836 Year: 2021 Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press,

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For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal 'wildcat' strike - the largest in United States history - for better wages and working conditions. Picket lines started in New York and spread across the country like wildfire. Strikers defied court injunctions, threats of termination, and their own union leaders. In the negotiated aftermath, the U.S. Post Office became the U.S. Postal Service, and postal workers received full collective bargaining rights and wage increases, all the while continuing to fight for greater democracy within their unions. Using archives, periodicals, and oral histories, Philip Rubio shows how this strike, born of frustration and rising expectations and emerging as part of a larger 1960s-1970s global rank-and-file labour upsurge, transformed the post office and postal unions.

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