Pullman Case The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America

Name: Pullman Case The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America
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ISBN: 9780700609543

ISBN-10: 0700609547

ISBN-13: 9780700609543

Edition: 1999

Authors: David Ray Papke

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When the American Railway Union went on strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1894, it set into motion a chain of events whose repercussions are still felt today. The strike pitted America's largest industrial union against twenty-four railroads, paralyzed rail traffic in half the country, and in the end was broken up by federal troops and suppressed by the courts, with union leader Eugene Debs incarcerated. But behind the Pullman case lay a conflict of ideologies at a watershed time in our nation's history. David Ray Papke reexamines the events and personalities surrounding the 1894 strike, related proceedings in the Chicago trial courts, and the 1895 Supreme Court decision, In…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 4/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 132
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Editors' Preface


Preface



Pullman, Debs, and Chicago in the 1890s



The Strike and Boycott



The Strike on Trial



In the Eyes of the United States Supreme Court



Ramifications and Conclusions


Chronology


Bibliographical Essay


Index