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Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore, editors. The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics . (The Working Class in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1999. Pp. 258. Cloth $49.95, paper $18.95.

This book reproduces eight essays presented to the hundredth anniversary conference—held in Eugene Debs's hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana—of the pivotal Pullman railroad strike of 1894. Technically a national boycott of Pullman Company sleeping cars by Debs's American Railway Union (ARU), the strike's defeat at the hands of federal troops enforcing a court injunction raised basic questions in the minds of contemporaries about the partiality of the state in labor matters, the breakdown of corporate paternalism, and the crisis of the late nineteenth-century labor movement. . . .


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