After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman

by Susan Eleanor Hirsch

The 1894 Pullman strike and the rise of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters played major roles in the century-long development of union organizing and labor-management relations in the Pullman Company. Susan Eleanor Hirsch connects the stories of Pullman car builders and porters to answer critical questions like: what created job segregation by race and gender? What role did such segregation play in shaping the labor movement?

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252027914
• ISBN13: 9780252027918
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"