{"product_id":"undelivered-philip-f-rubio-9781469655468","title":"Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing 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. It also led to fifty years of clashes between postal unions and management over wages, speedup, privatization, automation, and service. Rubio revives the 1970 strike story and connects it to today's postal financial crisis that threatens the future of a vital 245-year-old public communications institution and its labor unions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip F. Rubio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469655462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469655468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/11\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2020","brand":"Philip F. Rubio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995825635583,"sku":"9781469655468","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a9aeedc-9cab-4c07-89c8-488b21c2f9a8.jpg?v=1683338073","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/undelivered-philip-f-rubio-9781469655468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}