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a train car so plush it made sleeping upright optional and bankruptcy inevitable for its workers.
means a railroad sleeping car, or the luxury standard those cars set, named for the company that built them.
from george pullman built the pullman palace car company in 1867, hiring formerly enslaved men as porters and building an entire company town outside chicago to house workers who then rioted when he cut wages but not rent.
company townpullman, illinois, owned every house workers lived in
1894 strikeparalyzed rail traffic, ended with federal troops
porters uniona. philip randolph led first black-led union in 1925