Theres Always Work At The Post Office

Author : Philip F. Rubio
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807895733
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There's Always Work at the Post Office written by Philip F. Rubio and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 workers--often college-educated military veterans--fought their way into postal positions and unions and became a critical force for social change. They combined black labor protest and civic traditions to construct a civil rights unionism at the post office. They were a major factor in the 1970 nationwide postal wildcat strike, which resulted in full collective bargaining rights for the major postal unions under the newly established U.S. Postal Service in 1971. In making the fight for equality primary, African American postal workers were influential in shaping today's post office and postal unions.

Author : Philip F. Rubio
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833428
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There's Always Work at the Post Office written by Philip F. Rubio and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left m

Author : Sanford F. Schram
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438447744
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Footnote written by Sanford F. Schram and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous and witty recollections of the author's journey from insecure graduate student to noted activist/scholar.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post Office Appropriation Bill, 1926 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061844047
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post Office written by Charles Bukowski and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Bukowski’s classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age. Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski’s life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969, interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0399181822
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Author : Cheryl Vance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781717788320
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W. P. W. S. written by Cheryl Vance and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There's always work at the Post Office." Based on an intense first Novel by formal postal worker, spiritual consultant, and writer Cheryl Vance... She walks us into the creation of the spirit of a postal worker. Experience ... Stress, Deception, Sexual Harassment, Metal Illness and Death through her eyes. WPWS "Why Postal Workers Snap." Sharon Martin always wanted to be a postal worker. Little did she know this career would cost her freedom, respect, health and almost death? Sharon wanted to keep it together and not seek revenge by destroying all the Supers, before they even knew what was coming. If not for the Grace of God and his amazing mercy ... She could have been dead or ended up in the penitentiary for life. She dodged a bullet while experiencing the loss of many loved ones & coworkers. Sharon became a "Bad Ass" early on in her career. This has caused her to be loved by many yet at the same time hated even more. If you're planning on starting a Career with USPS ... Don't be so quick to join. Before you read WPWS "Why Postal Workers Snap" and know exactly what you're getting yourself into.

Author : Winifred Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399564039
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Post Office Created America written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century. Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.

Author : Dennis V. Damp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780943641195
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post Office Jobs written by Dennis V. Damp and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes salaries, job descriptions, and skill requirements for a variety of Post Office jobs.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postal Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: