Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town

Selected Bibliography

In the City

Benedetti, Robert. Dynamite and Roses: Lucy and Albert Parsons and the Haymarket Bombing of Chicago, 1886. Chicago, 2010.

Boyer, Paul S. Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920. Cambridge, MA, 1978.

Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. New York, 2007.

Nelson, Bruce C. Beyond the Martyrs: A Social History of Chicago's Anarchists, 1870-1900. New Brunswick, NJ, 1988.

Schneirov, Richard, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore, eds. The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Urbana, IL, 1999.

Smith, Carl. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman. Chicago, 1995.

Sawislak, Karen Lynn. Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874. Chicago, 1995.

In the Town

Buder, Stanley. Pullman: An Experiment in Industrial Order and Community Planning, 1880-1930. Chicago, 1967.

Gilbert, James. Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893. Chicago, 1991.

Green, Hardy. The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy. New York, 2010.

Leyendecker, Liston E. Palace Car Prince: A Biography of George Mortimer Pullman. Niwot, CO, 1992.

Reiff, Janice L. "A Modern Lear and His Daughters: Gender in the Modern Town of Pullman." Journal of Urban History 23 (1997): 316-41.

In the Shops

Cobb, Stephen G. The Reverend William Carwardine and the Pullman Strike of 1894: The Christian Gospel and Social Justice. Lewistown, NY, 1992.

Hirsch, Susan E. After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman. Urbana, IL, 2003.

Lindsey, Almont. The Pullman Strike; The Story of a Unique Experiment and of a Great Labor Upheaval. Chicago, 1964.

Papke, David Ray. The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. Lawrence, KS, 1999.

Peterson, Larry. "Producing Visual Traditions among Workers: The Uses of Photography at Pullman." International Labor and Working-Class History 42 (1992): 40-69.

Schneirov, Richard. "'To the Ragged Edge of Anarchy:' The 1894 Pullman Boycott." OAH Magazine of History 13 (1999): 26-30.

On the Trains

Bates, Beth Tompkins. Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945. Chapel HIll, NC, 2001.

Chateauvert, Melinda. Marching Together: Women and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Urbana, IL, 1999.

Grizzle, Stanley G. My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada. Toronto, 1998.

Grossman, Jim. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago, 1989.

Harris, William H. Keeping the Faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-1937. Urbana, IL, 1977.

Hughes, Lyn. An Anthology of Respect: The Pullman Porters' National Historic Registry of African American Railroad Employees. Chicago, 2009.

Perata, David D. Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African American Railroad Attendant. New York, 1996.

Santino, Jack. Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Stories of Black Pullman Porters. Urbana, IL, 1989.

________. "Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Negotiation of Black Occupational Identity Through Personal Experience Narrative." Journal of American Folklore 96 (1983): 393-412.

Tye. Larry. Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class. New York, 2004.

In the Neighborhood

Bensman, David and Roberta Lynch. Rusted Dreams: Hard Times in a Steel Community. New York, 1987.

Bigot, Joseph. From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class Metropolis in Chicago 1869-1929. Chicago, 2001.

Reiff, Janice L. "Pullman," in Encyclopedia of Chicago. Jim Grossman, Janice L. Reiff, and Ann Durkin Keating, eds. Chicago, 2005.

________. "Roseland," in Encyclopedia of Chicago. Jim Grossman, Janice L. Reiff, and Ann Durkin Keating, eds. Chicago, 2005.

________. "Kensington," in Encyclopedia of Chicago. Jim Grossman, Janice L. Reiff, and Ann Durkin Keating, eds. Chicago, 2005.

________. "Rethinking Pullman: Urban Space and Working-Class Activism." Social Science History 24 (2000): 7-32.

Reiff, Janice L. and Susan E. Hirsch. "Pullman and Its Public: Image and Aim in Making and Interpreting History." Public Historian 11 (1989): 99-112.

Stein, Judith. Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism. Chapel Hill, NC, 1998.

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