Chapter 7: Workingmen, footnote 58, page 295 Ch7 fn. 58 p. 295 Tags: Discursive, Government Documents, Histories and Biographies, Labor, Corporate and Business Organization The 1880 census put the number of western railroad workers at 36,430, and the western railroads were really only getting started. Their number would increase sevenfold by 1905.. United States Census, 1880, Report of the Agencies of Transportation in the United States . . . (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1883), table VI, group VI, p. 277. Stromquist, Generation of Boomers, 114.
