Railroaded

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Stromquist gives the best account of railroad work.

Shelton Stromquist, A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1987), 108.

Pinkerton, Personal Record, 53, 56-57, 83-89, 100-102, 118-19, 169-72.

Walter Licht, Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1983), 79-124, 214-243.