[6], 258. [8] pages. Contributors. Illustrations. Notes. Index. The cover has

[6], 258. [8] pages. Contributors. Illustrations. Notes. Index. The cover has some wear and soiling. This is one of The Working Class in American History series. Essays from leading labor historians examine the effects of the Pullman Strike of 1894 which shut down the rail system from Chicago to the West Coast. Richard Schneirov (born 1948) is a Professor Emeritus of history and noted labor historian at Indiana State University. Schneirov was named a Fulbright Scholar after receiving his doctorate. In 1986, Schneirov won appointment as an adjunct professor at Ohio State University. In 1989, Schneirov was named an assistant professor at Indiana State University. He was promoted to associate professor in 1993, and made a full professor in 1999. In 2020 Schneirov entered "phased retirement" from Indiana State University. Shelton Stromquist (born 1943) is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Iowa and a former president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association. A social and labor historian, Stromquist's research examines an array of topics that include nineteenth century labor movements in the United States, labor union politics during the Cold War, and workers' struggles for municipal socialism across the world. Nicholas Anthony Salvatore (born 1943) is an American historian who serves as the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. In the late spring of 1894, over four thousand workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company went out on strike. The company seemed an unlikely place for a strike, as its workers inhabited the well-appointed company town of Pullman, located near Chicago, Illinois. But the rise of Pullman-style welfare capitalism obscured a number of significant strains and tensions that quickly came to the surface in the economic depression of 1893-98. During the summer of 1894 members of the American Railway Union representing the strikers succeeded in paralyzing the American railroad network west of Chicago by refusing to handle the popular Pullman cars. A federal judge's injunction against the Union boycott turned the strike's tide in favor of the Pullman Company. President Cleveland effectively finished the strikers off when he dispatched federal troops to Chicago, where they protected strikebreakers operating trains. The Pullman strike of 1894 shut down the rail system from Chicago to the West Coast, culminating two decades of labor unrest and helping to define an epochal transition in American history. In this wide-ranging collection, leading labor historians use the prism of the Pullman strike to broaden our understanding of the crisis of the 1890s. By examining the strike in the context of continuities and changes in labor organization, the influences of gender and community, the public representation and contested meaning of labor conflict, the emergence of a new politics of progressive reform, the development of a regulatory state, and a changing legal environment, these essays resituate the Pullman conflict in its historical context. Illuminating one of the most important events in labor's past, The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s testifies to the pivotal importance of the Pullman conflict and its aftermath for understanding the course of American history.