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Post Office Workers: A Trade Union and Social History book cover

1st Edition

Post Office Workers A Trade Union and Social History

By Alan Clinton Copyright 1984
750 Pages
by Routledge

750 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1984, this book provides the first full account of the lives and aspirations of those who have worked in Britain to deliver mail, convey telegrams and transmit telephone conversations from the beginnings of such activities to the middle of the 20 th century. For many years the British Post Office was the prototype public enterprise and the largest employer of labour in... Read more

1.Introduction: Post Office Workers and their Unions 2. ‘A Powerful Engine of Civilisation’: The Post Office Before 1920 3. Post Office Workers in the Age of Expansion 4. Public Servants and Trade Unionists: 1840–1920 5. Sabbatarians and Sinners: 1840–1870 6. Founding the Associations: 1870–1891 7. The Inquiries and After 1895–1919 8. From Associations to Union, 1891–1920 9. From Service to Business: The Post Office Since 1920 10. The State of the Union 11. The UPW and its World 12. Bargaining under Whitleyism, in Depression and War: 1920–45 13. Bargaining in the Great Boom and After: 1945–71 14. From Post Office to Communication Worker. 

Biography

Alan Clinton (1943–2005)

‘His massively comprehensive Post Office Workers: A Trade Union And Social History became a model for the understanding of public sector unions.’ Alice Amsden, Obituary, The Guardian 

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