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In the United States, many social reformers in the late nineteenth century demonstrated a concern for improved housing conditions for workers. George Pullman (1831-1897), the wealthy industrialist who introduced luxury railway cars with beds, built his model city called Pullman in 1880 to address housing problems caused by Chicago’s industrialization. Construction the town, Pullman hoped to produce an ideal environment that would help attract workers of a superior type to the railway car industry and retain them. Pullman inhabitants were expected to embody values of thrift, industry, and morality. They were taught to develop propriety and good manners, cleanliness and neatness of appearance, diligence, and self-improvement through education and savings. Like the brick clock tower that dominated the town center, Pullman kept a regulatory eye on his workers.
In its first five years, this new experiment in industrial life received little criticism, except form radical p
A. A.A surplus of railway workers in Chicago
B.Housing problems caused by industrialization
C.George Pullman’s decision to stop producing railway cars
D.The opening of the World’s Columbian Exposition
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