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A Company Town Faces Starvation during the Pullman Strike
George Pullman, owner of the Pullman Palace Car Company, exemplified the paternalistic "welfare capitalist." Believing that labor unrest was caused by poor pay and living conditions, he initially paid his workers high wages and housed them in a [...]
Tags: Pullman Strike
Item Type: Diary/Letter
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)