After the Strike A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman

<DIV><P>The 1894 Pullman strike and the rise of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters played major roles in the century-long development of union organizing and labor-management relations in the Pullman Company. Susan Eleanor Hirsch connects the stories of Pullman car builders and porters to answer critical questions like: what created job segregation by race and gender? What role did such segregation play in shaping the labor movement? </P><P>Hirsch illuminates the relationship between labor organizing and the racial and sexual discrimination practiced by both employers and unions. Because the Pullman Company ran the sleeping-car service for American railroads and was a major manufacturer of railcars, its workers were involved in virtually every wave of union organizing from the 1890s to the 1940s. </P><P>In exploring the years of struggle by the men and women of the Pullman Company, <I>After the Strike</I> reveals the factors that determined the limited success and narrow vision of most American unions.</P></DIV>