George Pullman created a company town for his employees, but it came at a cost.

Pullman: a man, a company, a town, a movement.- Oftentimes, they would have these newspapers and throw them off the back of the trains and through word of mouth, local youth, in particular would ...

THE PULLMAN COMPANY SUED.; CHARGED WITH DEFRAUDING TWO ENGLISHMEN OF THEIR LANDS. Give this article Aug. 16, 1883 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from August 16 ...

Pullman made his fortune manufacturing high-quality sleeping cars that he leased to railroads. In 1880, he decided to construct a new factory and company town to the same lofty standards.

History of Pullman National Monument The Town of Pullman, now known as the Pullman Historic District, was built around the Pullman Palace Car Company, founded by George M. Pullman in 1867.

Elon Musk plans to open a company town called Snailbrook outside Austin. Company towns have rarely worked in the United States, with workers chafing under surveillance and refusing to accept ...

NEWS ABOUT RAILROADS; THE PULLMAN COMPANY COULD HAVE PAID 17 PER CENT. SOME FACTS FROM PRESIDENT PULLMAN'S ANNUAL REPORT ABOUT THE TOWN OF PULLMAN.

Pullman was among the country’s first planned company towns and founded in the 1880s to house Pullman factory workers.

In the three decades before the turn of the century, the prosperous company grew enormously and included a much heralded model company town adjacent to the new car works at Pullman, Illinois.

The Pullman strike showed the world that the company town was a doomed experiment in human control. But the industrialists of the time were every bit as hubristic as today’s tech oligarchs.

The Pullman National Historical Park tells the story of an industrialist, company, company town, labor, unions and how railroads came to connect a nation. Visitors can see factory buildings ...