After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman. By Susan Eleanor Hirsch (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x plus 292 pp. $44.95).

As Susan Hirsch points out at the beginning of her impressive study, workers at the Pullman Company make two dramatic appearances in the annals of American history. The first, of course, comes during the violent strike of 1894, and the second with the incarnation of the influential Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), an important harbinger of the civil rights movement. In After the Strike, Hirsch seeks to fill in ...

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