Rethinking Pullman

Urban Space and Working-Class Activism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5812144
AutoresJanice L Reiff (autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen24
Número1
Páginas7-26
Fecha de publicación2000-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Science History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0145553200010063
OpenAlexW1999714575
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas22

For the residents of the former model town of Pullman, Illinois, 1994 was an important year. In May, 100 years earlier, a strike had broken out that pitted workers at the Pullman Car Works against George M. Pullman and the company that bore his name. Before the strike finally collapsed in August, it shutdown railroad traffic across much of America, brought federal troops into Chicago and cities as far away as Los Angeles, and led to the imprisonment of Eugene V. Debs, the president of the American Railway Union (ARU). It also brought to a close the long-standing debate on the most famous of the company's social experiments: the model town located on Chicago's far south side. Since 1880, George Pullman had trumpeted the architecturally and socially crafted town and life inside it as solutions for the problems of urban, industrial America, and large numbers of observers had concurred with that evaluation (Wright 1884; Smith 1995: 177-270; Reiff and Hirsch 1989: 104-6). For almost as long, its critics had excoriated the town as representing the worst excesses of a capitalist society where one man and his company could dominate every aspect of a worker's life in their dual roles as landlord and employer (Ely 1885; Carwardine 1973 [1894

George (robot · Imprisonment · Landlord · Wright · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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