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Author: Michael Burgan Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 9780756533489 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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Describes the violent Pullman strike of 1894 which closed railroads across the midwestern United States and which made the nation's leaders see the need for addressing the concerns of the country's workers.
Author: Michael Burgan Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 9780756533489 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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Describes the violent Pullman strike of 1894 which closed railroads across the midwestern United States and which made the nation's leaders see the need for addressing the concerns of the country's workers.
Author: Almont Lindsey Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226483835 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 414
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The Pullman Strike of 1894 threatened an entire nation with social and economic upheaval. Describing both its immediate results in business and its far-reaching effects on trade unionism, the author treats the dramatic story of the strike no as an isolated conflict, but as a culminating explosion in labor-capital relations. Woven into the narrative is the rise and decline of the extraordinary Pullman experiment. To all outward appearances a philanthropic project conceived by a generous employer for his employees, the "model town" of George Pullman developed into a kind of medieval barony, operated with an iron hand. This experiment is carefully traced in all its varying aspects, with emphasis on its contribution to the origin of the strike.
Author: Edward T. O'Donnell Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040126952 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 190
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This book examines the 1894 Pullman Strike, one of the most consequential clashes between labor and capital that paralyzed America’s railroad system. The Gilded Age saw rapid economic growth, expansion of industrialization, and real wage growth. Yet between 1800 and 1900 there were nearly 37,000 strikes, and the Pullman Strike reflected the broad dissatisfaction and unrest among American workers. The book consists of an engaging narrative, analysis of existing scholarship, sidebars, and primary source documents which collectively answer why the Pullman Strike is so critical to the American Experience: it exposed the limits of paternalistic capitalism, revealed the extraordinary power of big business, introduced the use of injunctions to stop strikes, and launched the career of the iconic labor leader Eugene Debs. Overall, it reveals what struggles workers encountered when forming unions, the changing role of government regarding the economy, and the threat that unchecked big business posed to democracy. The Pullman Strike is useful for all undergraduate students who study the Gilded Age, industrial relations, and labor, urban, and economic history in the United States.
Author: Richard Schneirov Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252067556 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 282
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The Pullman strike of 1894 shut down the rail system from Chicago to the West Coast, culminating two decades of labor unrest and helping to define an epochal transition in American history. In this wide-ranging collection, leading labor historians use the prism of the Pullman strike to broaden our understanding of the crisis of the 1890s. By examining the strike in the context of continuities and changes in labor organization, the influences of gender and community, the public representation and contested meaning of labor conflict, the emergence of a new politics of progressive reform, the development of a regulatory state, and a changing legal environment, these essays resituate the Pullman conflict in its historical context. Illuminating one of the most important events in labor's past, The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s testifies to the pivotal importance of the Pullman conflict and its aftermath for understanding the course of American history.
Author: Linda Jacobs Altman Publisher: ISBN: 9781562943462 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 68
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Discusses the people and events involved in the unsuccessful but influential strike by railroad workers at the Pullman Company in Chicago in 1894.
Author: Rosemary Laughlin Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 120
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Annotation The strike at the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois, began a new era in the struggle between American labor and management.
Author: David Ray Papke Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 144
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The American Railway Union strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1894 pitted America's largest industrial union against 24 railroads, and was broken up by federal troops and suppressed in the courts. Papke (law, Indiana U. School of Law-Indianapolis) re-examines events and personalities surrounding the strike, related proceedings in the Chicago trial courts, and the 1895 Supreme Court decision, In re Debs, which set important standards for labor injunctions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Michael Burgan
Author: Michael Burgan
Author: Almont Lindsey
Author: Edward T. O'Donnell
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Author: Linda Jacobs Altman
Author: William Horace Carwardine
Author: Leon Stein
Author: Rosemary Laughlin
Author: David Ray Papke
Author: William James Ashley