Victorian Post Office. The growth of a bureaucracy
Details:
- Author(s) Perry, Charles R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1992
- Pages 308pp
- Publisher Boydell Press for Royal Historical Society
- Place Published Woodbridge
Topics:
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
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- County Greater London
- Country England
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Notes:
Scholarly work. Deals with the development of the Post office from c1870s to 1920, identifying it as a component of the state / state bureaucracy and as part of the emerging mixed economy. Structured in four parts: 1] 'Administration contexts - 'The world of St Martin's le Grand' / 'The role of the Treasury'; 2] 'New responsibilities' - 'Encouragement of thrift'; 'Nationalisation of the telegraphs'; 'Trials of the Post Office Telegraphs, 1870-1914'; 'The coming of the telephone, 1876-92'; 'The acquisition of the telephone, 1892-1920'; 3] 'Complications of growth' - 'Railway contracts' / 'Shipping contracts'; 4] 'Epilogue - A pattern of government growth?'. Touches on National Telephone Co Ltd