The Rise and Fall of the Pullman Car Company
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The Rise and Fall of the Pullman Car Company
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“The Rise and Fall of the Pullman Car Company” is a business history deep dive from Strange Business History Cafe into the railroad sleeping car empire that changed American travel.
George Mortimer Pullman started as a cabinet maker and building mover who helped raise Chicago’s buildings with jack screws. Convinced overnight train travel could be better, he built the sleeping car and grew the Pullman Company into a giant. He then built a whole company town around his factory, where he owned everything and workers rented from the company.
When Pullman cut wages but not rents, workers went on strike, and Eugene V. Debs and the American Railway Union called a national boycott. The Pullman strike changed America, and Congress made Labor Day a national holiday in 1894.
The story continues after Pullman’s death, through the Pullman porters and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters led by A. Philip Randolph, to the company’s decline in the age of the airplane and the automobile.
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