Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
- ISBN 10: 0805078509
- ISBN 13: 9780805078503
- Author: Larry Tye
- Edition: Paperback
- Release: 2005-06-01
- Format: Paperback (352 pages)
- List Price: $15.00
- Tags: Business & Investing, Economics, Labor & Industrial Relations, History, Americas, United States
Featured Bookstore
-
Used
$8.80
Book Description: "A lively and engaging chronicle that adds yet another dimension to the historical record." -The Boston GlobeWhen George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found his offer of a steady job and worldly experience irresistable. They quickly signed up to serve as maid, waiter, concierge, nanny, and occasionally doctor and undertaker to cars full of white passengers, making the Pullman Company the largest employer of African Americans in the country by the 1920s.Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Larry Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class. Rising from the Rails provides a lively and enlightening look at this important social phenomenon.
| Summary of Lowest Prices | Sort By: Price Condition | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seller | Condition | Price | Shipping | Details | Total |
||
 |
International |
$4.24 | $3.75 | Details | $7.99 | View All International |
|
|
Used |
$4.31 | $2.95 | Details | $7.26 | View All Used |
|
 |
New |
$8.88 | $2.99 | Details | $11.87 | View All New |
|
 |
Rental |
$11.99 | $5.49 | Details | $17.48 | View All Rental |
|
| Used Books | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seller | Price | Shipping | Details | Availability | Total | |
| |
$4.31 | $2.95 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $7.26 |
|
| |
$4.99 | $2.99 | Details | Ready to ship | $7.98 |
|
 |
$4.37 | $3.99 | Details | Ready to ship | $8.36 |
|
 |
$4.99 | $3.49 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $8.48 |
|
 |
$5.34 | $3.49 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $8.83 |
|
 |
$4.99 | $3.89 | Details | Ready to ship | $8.88 |
|
 |
$4.99 | $3.95 | Details | Ready to ship | $8.94 |
|
 |
$4.99 | $3.97 | Details | Ships 3 Days or More | $8.96 |
|
 |
$4.99 | $3.99 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $8.98 |
|
 |
$8.99 | Free | Details | Ready to ship | $8.99 |
|
 |
$5.24 | $3.99 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $9.23 |
|
 |
$5.99 | $3.96 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $9.95 |
|
 |
$8.99 | $3.00 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $11.99 |
|
 |
$8.80 | $4.99 | Details | Ready to ship | $13.79 |
|
 |
$10.50 | $3.50 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $14.00 |
|
| See 5 More Used Titles >> | ||||||
| New Books | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seller | Price | Shipping | Details | Availability | Total | |
| |
$8.88 | $2.99 | Details | Ready to ship | $11.87 |
|
| |
$8.88 | $3.00 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $11.88 |
|
| |
$8.00 | $3.99 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $11.99 |
|
| |
$8.67 | $3.49 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $12.16 |
|
| |
$8.89 | $3.95 | Details | Ready to ship | $12.84 |
|
| |
$8.88 | $3.97 | Details | Ships 3 Days or More | $12.85 |
|
| |
$8.88 | $3.99 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $12.87 |
|
| |
$8.88 | $3.99 | Details | Ready to ship | $12.87 |
|
| |
$8.88 | $3.99 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $12.87 |
|
| |
$9.07 | $3.96 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $13.03 |
|
| |
$13.98 | Free | Details | Ready to ship | $13.98 |
|
 |
$10.98 | $3.97 | Details | In Stock | $14.95 |
|
 |
$11.21 | $3.97 | Details | Ready to ship | $15.18 |
|
 |
$11.52 | $3.99 | Details | Ready to ship | $15.51 |
|
 |
$12.00 | $3.65 | Details | Ships 3 Days or More | $15.65 |
|
| |
$15.00 | $3.50 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $18.50 |
|
| See 6 More New Titles >> | ||||||
Book Rental  |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seller | Price | Shipping | Details | Availability | Total | |
| |
$11.99 | $5.49 | Details | Ready to ship | $17.48 |
|
| International Editions |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seller | Price | Shipping | Details | Availability | Total | |
| |
$4.24 | $3.75 | Details | Ships 2-3 days | $7.99 |
|
| |
$9.33 | $2.99 | Details | Ready to ship | $12.32 |
|
Content Copyright © 1999-2009 Terms and Conditions of Use, Security and Privacy Policy | Resources: 1 2 3 | Site Map
