Royal mail : the Post Office since 1840 /: the Post Office since 1840. (2015)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Royal mail : the Post Office since 1840 /: the Post Office since 1840. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Royal mail : the Post Office since 1840
- Further Information:
- Note: M.J. Daunton.
- Authors:
- Daunton, M. J (Martin J.)
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART I: IMPROVEMENT AND EXPANSION; 1. Rowland Hill: from radical to administrator; Rowland Hill and postal reform; The ambitious Hills; The economics of the Penny Post; The administration of the Penny Post55; 2. Mail services; The 'completion of my plan'; Monopoly and competition; Book, sample and parcel posts; Inland postage rates and traffic; 3. Financial services: profit or welfare?; The retail business of remittances; The Post Office Savings Bank; The Post Office and provision for old age. Giro: the limits of public enterprisePART II: CARRYING THE MAIL; 4. Rail and road: the inland mail; The Penny Post and the railways; The Railway Commission and the Great Western award of 1903; Transit services and contractors; The 'motorisation' of collections and deliveries; 5. Sea and air: the overseas mail; Postage rates: foreign mail; Admiralty control and the development of steamships, 1837-60; The Post Office and packet contracts in the 1860s; Mail contracts and the merchant marine, 1870-1939; Air mails: the European 'all-up' service; The Empire Air Mail Scheme. PART III: WORKING FOR THE POST OFFICE6. Workers and wages; The workforce: size and structure; Unestablished workers: auxiliaries and boy messengers; Indoor and outdoor: postmen and sorters; Sexual divisions: women's employment; The determination of wages; Wages, labour costs and productivity; 7. On the establishment; From patronage toCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART I: IMPROVEMENT AND EXPANSION; 1. Rowland Hill: from radical to administrator; Rowland Hill and postal reform; The ambitious Hills; The economics of the Penny Post; The administration of the Penny Post55; 2. Mail services; The 'completion of my plan'; Monopoly and competition; Book, sample and parcel posts; Inland postage rates and traffic; 3. Financial services: profit or welfare?; The retail business of remittances; The Post Office Savings Bank; The Post Office and provision for old age. Giro: the limits of public enterprisePART II: CARRYING THE MAIL; 4. Rail and road: the inland mail; The Penny Post and the railways; The Railway Commission and the Great Western award of 1903; Transit services and contractors; The 'motorisation' of collections and deliveries; 5. Sea and air: the overseas mail; Postage rates: foreign mail; Admiralty control and the development of steamships, 1837-60; The Post Office and packet contracts in the 1860s; Mail contracts and the merchant marine, 1870-1939; Air mails: the European 'all-up' service; The Empire Air Mail Scheme. PART III: WORKING FOR THE POST OFFICE6. Workers and wages; The workforce: size and structure; Unestablished workers: auxiliaries and boy messengers; Indoor and outdoor: postmen and sorters; Sexual divisions: women's employment; The determination of wages; Wages, labour costs and productivity; 7. On the establishment; From patronage to merit; The benefits of establishment16; Rising in the service; Unions: from rejection to recognition; PART IV: OFFICIALS AND POLITICIANS; 8. Centre and region; Centralisation: the power of St Martin's le Grand; Postmasters and surveyors. Decentralisation: the frustration of reformRegionalisation; 9. Autonomy and control; Treasury control and political leadership; The Scudamore scandal; 'Machine for raising revenue' or 'instrument for social benefit'; PART V: EPILOGUE: THE POSTWAR WORLD; 10. Retreat and reform in the postwar world; Problems in the era of full employment; Managing the Post Office; Mechanisation; Two-tier post; Labour relations and productivity; Escaping from decline; Notes; Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 383/.4941
Postal service -- Great Britain -- History
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
Postal service
Great Britain
Electronic books
History
Electronic books
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781474241243
1474241247 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781474241236
1474241239 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 2, 2015). - Access Rights:
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.412441
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