Author: Henry G. SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A History of Postal Agitation
Author: Henry G. SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A history of postal agitation from fifty years ago till the present day
Author: H. G. SwiftPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
"A history of postal agitation from fifty years ago till the present day" by H. G. Swift. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Serving a Wired World
Author: Katie Hindmarch-WatsonPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520344731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new—the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally interconnected lives. But the pressures exerted on many of today’s communications tech workers mirror those of a much earlier generation of laborers in a very different space: the London workforce that helped launch and shape the massive telecommunications systems operating at the turn of the twentieth century. As the Victorian age ended, affluent Britons came to rely on information exchanged along telegraph and telephone wires for seamless communication: an efficient and impersonal mode of sharing thoughts, demands, and desires. This embrace of seemingly unmediated communication obscured the labor involved in the smooth operation of the network, much as our reliance on social media and app interfaces does today. Serving a Wired World is a history of information service work embedded in the daily maintenance of liberal Britain and the status quo in the early years of the twentieth century. As Katie Hindmarch-Watson shows, the administrators and engineers who crafted these telecommunications systems created networks according to conventional gender perceptions and social hierarchies, modeling the operation of the networks on the dynamic between master and servant. Despite attempts to render telegraphists and telephone operators invisible, these workers were quite aware of their crucial role in modern life, and they posed creative challenges to their marginalized status—from organizing labor strikes to participating in deviant sexual exchanges. In unexpected ways, these workers turned a flatly neutral telecommunications network into a revolutionary one, challenging the status quo in ways familiar today.
Germs in the English Workplace, c.1880–1945
Author: Laura NewmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429769180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book looks at how the workplace was transformed through a greater awareness of the roles that germs played in English working lives from c.1880 to 1945. Cutting across a diverse array of occupational settings – such as the domestic kitchen, the milking shed, the factory, and the Post Office – it offers new perspectives on the history of the germ sciences. It brings to light the ways in which germ scientists sought to transform English working lives through new types of technical and educational interventions that sought to both eradicate and instrumentalise germs. It then asks how we can measure and judge the success of such interventions by tracing how workers responded to the potential applications of the germ sciences through their participation in friendly societies, trade unions, colleges, and volunteer organisations. Throughout the book, close attention is paid to reconstructing vernacular traditions of working with invisible life in order to better understand both the successes and failures of the germ sciences to transform the working practices and material conditions of different workplaces. The result is a more diverse history of the peoples, politics, and practices that went into shaping the germ sciences in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England.
The Union Postal Clerk & the Postal Transport Journal
Author: Post-traumatic Epilepsy
Author: Marco MulaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108494226
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A comprehensive overview of post-traumatic epilepsy and its management, long-term consequences, and the rehabilitation needs of patients. Covering the neurobiology, epidemiology, and the neuropsychiatric aspects of traumatic brain injuries, special populations such as paediatric patients and athletes with concussive injuries are also discussed.
The British Post Office from Its Beginnings to the End of 1925
Author: Chapman Frederick Dendy MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage-stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Postal history, postage stamps, John Palmer, Rowland Hill, William Mulready.
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