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Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal Service

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  • © 1994

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  1. Vern K. Baxter

    1. University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry (SSWI)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal Service

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 1-7

  3. Social Theory and the Problem of Postal Reorganization

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 9-28

  4. The Post Office and Society

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 29-54

  5. Class Conflict and Postal Reorganization

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 55-78

  6. The Process of Postal Reorganization

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 79-93

  7. The Postal Corporation

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 95-117

  8. The Mechanization of Mail Processing

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 119-143

  9. The Automation of Mail Processing

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 145-162

  10. The Impact of Automation in the Post Office

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 163-186

  11. Workplace Violence in the U.S. Post Office

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 187-199

  12. Labor Relations in the Postal Corporation

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 201-222

  13. The Importance of Postal Reorganization

    • Vern K. Baxter
    Pages 223-243

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 245-275
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About this book

Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal Service grew out of concern for the way a large public organization does its work. It reflects my effort to link experience working as a letter carrier and mail collector with subsequent years of study in the field of organizational sociology. The final product is an academic book that certainly reveals great distance from experience in the postal workplace, but I must confess that the book still presents more a view from the bottom than a view from the top of the post office. I hope this view proves beneficial. It turns out that studying the post office has become an ongoing project that has outlived several jobs, relationships, and hairlines. What originated as a historical study of the 1970 reorganization became an analysis of the causes and consequences of an ongoing process of re­ structuring and technological change in the post office. Fortunately for me, similar restructurings have recently occurred in organizations and industries across the nation and around the world. The competitive pressures, new technologies, and political and class-based conflicts dis­ cussed in this book are perhaps more relevant today than they were in the late 1970s when I began research on the post office.

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  • University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

    Vern K. Baxter

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