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Paralyzing the Rails: The Brutal Boycott of the Pullman Strike

Paralyzing the Rails: The Brutal Boycott of the Pullman Strike

Par Ingram, Joshua M.

Publié par epubli

English 2026 ISBN 9783565370047
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In the late 19th century, George Pullman built a massive luxury train car empire and a utopian "company town" where he controlled his workers' housing, utilities, and wages. When a severe economic depression hit in 1893, Pullman ruthlessly slashed wages by thirty percent but refused to lower the rent in his town, effectively starving his own employees. When the workers walked out, they sparked the Pullman Strike of 1894—a staggering, nationwide railroad boycott led by Eugene V. Debs. Over 250,000 railway workers across twenty-seven states simply refused to switch, signal, or drive any train carrying a Pullman car. The American transportation and economic network instantly froze, trapping passengers and rotting freight from coast to coast. This book breaks down the extreme corporate retaliation. We explore how railway barons deliberately hitched Pullman cars to federal mail trains, giving the US government the legal excuse to deploy the military, shoot striking workers, and violently crush the union to ensure the mail—and capitalist dominance—survived. Study the violent breaking point of American labor. Discover how a single corporate dictator pushed his workers into a nationwide rebellion that paralyzed a continent.

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