The Town of Pullman: Success or Failure?.
The invention of the railroad was probably the most important occurrence in the nineteenth century. The United States became a unified front and interstate travel become safe, cheap and efficient. Industries related to the railroad began to prosper, fueling much of the American economy. Entrepreneurs quickly began to take advantage of this boom and thus "American Big Business" was born. George Pullman was one of the many prominent tycoons of this "Railroad Era". Through the use of his talented ingenuity and high organizational skills, he acquired a vast fortune and immense power. .
George Pullman is most notably credited for the creation of the Pullman Sleeping Car. Its invention enhanced the pleasure of railroad travel by making it more comfortable, clean and exciting. As George Pullman's invention gained quick public approval, his company began to expand at an enormous rate. This presented a great deal of problems to Pullman. "The company wanted to increase efficiency and economy in servicing and providing cars by spreading facilities. He [Pullman] wanted several hundred acres adjacent to railroad and water transportation." In 1868, Pullman decided on the Calumet region in southern Chicago. Pullman selected the Calumet region because it offered "cheap land, low taxes, and excellent transportation." Few people knew his second and main intention was to build a model town adjacent to the new factory, which he hoped would improve his business enterprise. .
Pullman was deeply troubled by the social problems of the mid- nineteenth century. He believed that they were the root of the labor unrest his company was experiencing. "The period showed a dramatic intensification in the numbers of the urban poor, as people with little capital and few useful skills came to the cities in search for employment." Living conditions were terrible and congestion, dirt, and poor sanitation were held responsible for diseases.
The Town of Pullman was both a success and a failure. ... There was unrest by the residence in the town of Pullman because George Pullman's vision was carried out. ... The first thirteen years of the town Pullman was a success. ... For this reason Pullman remained a dry town. ... First, the town itself which was the dream of George Pullman and the model town in which all future towns would be based upon became a reality. ...
In order to prove this Pullman created a utopian town with satisfactory housing, a church, and a school. ... This is when the Pullman Strike started. ... This economic boom forced Pullman to have to lay off 40% of his current employees. ... Pullman was refusing to negotiate with the workers and, in fact, was giving favoritism towards his employees that lived in his town when he was rehiring. ... All the workers wanted were fair wages and a fair workplace, but Pullman and the ARU were refusing to respect that. ...
Together, they share a carefree existence scampering across the roofs of the college, racing through the streets of Oxford, or waging war with the other children in town. ... In his Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman has produced the most virile attack on organised religion and God that I have ever read. In fact, if this had been published a few centuries ago, Phillip Pullman would probably no longer be with us. ... According to Pullman, even though we in our own world do not have physical daemons, we have the equivalent within us. Pullman makes the daemon sound so appealing and such fun, ...
Instead, a few days later, 8,000 members of the Pennsylvania National Guard took over the town. ... Pullman workers lived in a company town described as, "bordered with bright beds of flowers, and green velvety stretches of lawn, shaded with trees, and dotted with parks and pretty water vistas," (Meltzer 148). ... Though was a section of the town that included this. ... The Pullman Corporation appointed all the town officials. ... "As employer, George Pullman dete...
The National Guard came in and secured the town. ... George Pullman was a man that essentially owned a town. He owned the housing, factory, and services of this small town and almost all of those that lived there worked for him. ... This backing fueled Pullman's battle and allows him to not breakdown to the ARU's demands. As a counter move the ARU asked for the help of the AFL in the strike against Pullman. ...
The first national strike in United States history took place in 1894, when railway workers struck the Pullman Company. George Pullman, manufacturer of the railroad cars that still bears his name, built a "company town" to house his workers. ... They organized and went on strike, first in Pullman, but the strike spread until all the railway workers in the United States walked out. ... And yet the strikers did not "win" their case, Pullman kept his rents where they were. ...
It is a strange tale of Jack Potter, an insecure marshal of a small Texas town on the Rio Grande, Yellow Sky. ... Potter's "recent marriage is significant, not just, as the story suggests, because he is a prominent person in the town, but because it makes him as much of an anomaly in a Western story as he is on the Pullman-(Collins 142). ... The first primary setting is the Pullman car. ... But in reality, the landscape stands still and the Pullman car is moving. ... This setting has the same significance as the Pullman car setting. ...
The Pullman community has an ongoing stigma, and is having a problem getting rid of it. ... With Pullman being such a small town and the weather so bad in the winter and fall, many students take up drinking and other bad influences to occupy their time. ... This isn't the case just on campus in Pullman, WA. Scott, age 18, is a senior in high school that lives in Pullman. ... Non-campus in Pullman had 38 under age incidences in 2001, on campus 568. ...
The Pullman train is carrying Marshal Jack Potter and his Eastern bride back to Yellow Sky. ... The second setting is "a world of complete contrast to the Eastern Pullman: the setting is Western, the bar of the Weary Gentleman Saloon" (Solomon 253). ... He has told no one and is quietly attempting to sneak his bride back into town. ... Scratchy is the town's drunken bum. ... Despite his comical appearance, Scratchy is still the terror of the town. ...
