Royal Mail. The Post Office since 1840
Details:
- Author(s) Daunton, Martin
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1985
- Pages 388pp; illus
- Publisher Athlone Press
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration
- Name Worker / employee management inc control
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Officially sponsored history of the Post office written by a senior academic historian as successor to Howard Robinson, 'Britain's Post Office', 1953. Deals with services provided - rail, road, sea and air - but a stronger focus is its administration and the principles upon which it operated as a government owned institution of massive size - management of labour, administrative structures, public responsibilities, political influences, etc. Only touches briefly on telecommunications. Covers post 1945 years comparatively briefly. Structured in four parts, viz: 'Improvement and expansion' - 'Rowland Hill, from radical to administrator' / 'Mail services' / 'Financial services, profit or welfare?'; 2] 'Carrying the mail' - 'Rail and road, the in and mail' / 'Sea and air, the overseas mail'; 3] 'Working for the Post Office' - 'Workers and wages' / 'On the establishment'; 4] 'Officials and politicians' - 'Centre and region' / 'Autonomy and control'; 5] 'Epilogue - the post war world' - 'Retreat and reform'