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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Book Title: Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal Service
Authors: Vern K. Baxter
Series Title: Springer Studies in Work and Industry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1468-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1994
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44753-2Published: 31 October 1994
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-1470-5Published: 31 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-1468-2Published: 29 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 276
Topics: Business and Management, general, Political Science, Sociology, general

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