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How George Pullman Built a Town, Banned Alcohol, and Started a Revolution

Subscribe in 1-click:    / @historyhasconsequences   May 11, 1894. Three thousand workers walked out of the Pullman Palace Car Company. Within weeks, 250,000 railroad workers across the western United States joined them, rail traffic ground to a halt, federal troops occupied Chicago, and 13 workers lay dead. This was the Pullman Strike — and the legal precedent it created still defines the boundary between corporate power and democratic government today. This video reveals how George Pullman built what he called a "model town" to eliminate labor unrest through environmental control — brick row houses, paved streets, parks, theaters, everything designed to elevate worker morality. You'll see how workers discovered the perfect town was actually a system of total corporate control: Pullman owned their homes, stores, church, library, and water supply, charged rent 25% higher than neighboring towns, censored their reading materials, and could evict them with 10 days' notice. When the Panic of 1893 forced wage cuts of 25% while rents stayed unchanged, workers did the math and realized they were clearing $6 per month after rent deductions — sometimes receiving pay stubs showing they owed the company money. The Illinois Supreme Court's 1898 decision that corporations cannot operate as governments established a principle we're still fighting over. When tech companies build company towns with corporate-controlled housing and services, when employers tie health insurance and childcare to employment creating total dependency, when workers face losing everything simultaneously if they're fired — these are echoes of Pullman's model town. The mechanisms changed. The power imbalance remains. George Pullman built a utopia to prove capitalism could create harmony. Workers proved that even the most beautiful cage is still a cage. The courts agreed. 📑 CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction 1:14 - Building the Model Town 2:28 - The Hidden Control System 4:23 - The Panic and Wage Cuts 6:16 - The Strike Begins 7:37 - Federal Intervention 9:27 - The Strike Commission Investigation 11:14 - The Illinois Supreme Court Ruling 13:36 - The Legacy of Corporate Power 📜 SOURCES & REFERENCES Almont Lindsey – "The Pullman Strike: The Story of a Unique Experiment and of a Great Labor Upheaval" (1942) Stanley Buder – "Pullman: An Experiment in Industrial Order and Community Planning, 1880-1930" (1967) United States Strike Commission – "Report on the Chicago Strike of June-July, 1894" (1895) Richard Schneirov – "Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97" (1998) Illinois Supreme Court – "People ex rel. Moloney v. Pullman's Palace Car Co." 175 Ill. 125 (1898) New York Times – Strike Coverage (May-July 1894) Chicago Tribune – Contemporary Reporting (1894) #pullmanstrike #gildedage #laborhistory #companytowns #corporatepower #workersrights #americanhistory #documentary #economichistory #federaltroops #eugendebs #georgepullman #1894 #chicagohistory #financialhistory