Railroaded

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Chapter 6: Men in Octopus Suits, footnote 17, page 235

Ch6 fn. 17
p. 235
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Discursive, Published Letters/Correspondence, Histories and Biographies, Newberry Library, Corporate and Business Organization

The best accounts of railroad work and the struggle over it are Shelton Stromquist, A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1987),

and Walter Licht, Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1983).

Memo, Prepared by John B. Nyman, n.d., vol. 6.5, 63, 1870, CB&Q.

The organization described below depends on this memo.

John H. White Jr., The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993), 53, 77.

See also Transportation Rules, Northern Pacific System of Railroads, in Effect Sept. 1, 1883 (St. Paul: Pioneer Press Co., 1883), 6 and passim, pt. 1, ser. B, NS7602, r. 2, Secretary, Printed Materials, NP.