5/16/2023 0 Comments Pullman strikeIn the eastern part of the U.S., the ARU had few members, in part because unemployment was high (unemployed railroad workers from the east were strikebreakers in 1894). Race was a powerful fracturing factor like the railroad craft unions, the American Railway Union (ARU) excluded blacks. Yet, as Hirsch demonstrates, unity among railroad workers was an elusive ideal despite impressive progress. Hirsch observes, in "The Search for Unity among Railroad Workers: The Pullman Strike in Perspective," that the lasting and perhaps central image of the Pullman strike and boycott is of a vigorous, if somewhat embryonic, nationwide workers' movement being crushed by organized capital and the Federal government. While all of the essays warrant a close reading by anyone interested in Pullman and the broader history of late-19th and early-20th century America, two will be addressed. Reiff, Larry Peterson, Victoria Brown, and Melvyn Dubofsky, as well as Stromquist and Schneirov. This excellent volume contains eight revised conference papers, with an introduction authored by editors Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore and an epilogue written by David Montgomery. The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s is another fine addition to "The Working Class in American History" series. The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America DAVID RAY PAPKE, 1999 Lawrence: University Press of Kansas pp. The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics RICHARD SCHNEIROV, SHELTON STROMQUIST SC NICK SALVATORE (eds.), 1999 Urbana: University of Illinois Press pp.
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