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Going Postal examines the phenomenon of rage murder that took America by storm in the early 1980's and has since grown yearly in body counts and symbolic value. By looking at massacres in schools and offices as post-industrial rebellions, Mark Ames is able to juxtapose the historical place of rage in America with the social climate after Reaganomics began to effect worker's paychecks. But why high schools? Why post offices? Mark Ames examines the most fascinating and unexpected cases, crafting a convincing argument for workplace massacres as modern day slave rebellions. Like slave rebellions, rage massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Going Postal seeks to contextualize this violence in a world where working isn't--and doesn't pay--what it used to. Part social critique and part true crime page-turner, Going Postal answers the questions asked by commentators on the nightly news and films such as Bowling for Columbine.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Going Postal
• Subtitle: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: from Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond
• Author: Mark Ames
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• EAN: 9781932360820
• ISBN: 1932360824
• ID: 09246347
• Publisher: SOFT SKULL PRESS
• Weight: 311 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. August 2006

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