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02796aam a2200409 i 4500 001 4714C640353511EB88BA481D27ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201203010017 008 191121s2020 ncua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2019052213 020 $a 1469655454 020 $a 9781469655451 020 $a 1469655462 020 $a 9781469655468 035 $a (OCoLC)1119750347 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCL $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HE6499 R84 2020 100 1 $a Rubio, Philip F. $e author. 245 10 $a Undelivered : $b from the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the manufactured crisis of the U.S. Postal Service / $c Philip F. Rubio. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 290 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Postal workers and the rise of collective bargaining -- Rising expectations and brewing conflict -- The strike begins -- The strike ends -- Aftershocks and postal reorganization -- The U.S. Postal Service and the postal unions in the 1970s -- Almost striking again, arbitration, and automation, 1980s-1990s -- Downsizing, financial crisis, and the challenge for postal labor, 2000-2019. 520 $a "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 labor upsurge, transformed the post office and postal unions"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a United States Postal Service $x History. $x History. 610 20 $a National Association of Letter Carriers (U.S.) $x History. 610 20 $a American Postal Workers Union $x History. 650 0 $a Postal service $x History $x Labor unions $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Postal service $x History $x Labor unions $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Postal Strike, U.S., 1970. 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907011845.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4714C640353511EB88BA481D27ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search