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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811945303321

Autore

O'Hara S. Paul

Titolo

Inventing the Pinkertons, or, spies, sleuths, mercenaries, and thugs : being a story of the nation's most famous (and infamous) detective agency / / S. Paul O'Hara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4214-2057-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

363.28/90973

Soggetti

Private investigators - United States - History

Industrial relations - United States - History

Labor - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter Three. In which Pinkerton agents infiltrate secret societiesA noxious weed of Ireland; Among the assassins!; Strikers, communists, tramps, and detectives; Conclusion: Anarchists and the detectives; Chapter Four. In which the Pinks serve as a private army for capital; The "Pinkerton Force" or detectives on trial; "Pinkerton is neither more nor less than the head of a band of mercenaries"; The Knights of Labor and the Pinkerton roughs; Conclusion: Anarchists and the detectives; Chapter Five. In which Pinkerton myrmidons invade Homestead; The Great Battle of Homestead