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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Hara, S. Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Private investigators--United States--History.
- Private investigators.
- Industrial relations--United States--History.
- Industrial relations.
- Labor--United States--History.
- Labor.
- Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
- Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884.
- Pinkerton, Allan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Ultimately, Inventing the Pinkertons is a gripping look at how the histories of American capitalism, industrial folklore, and the nation-state converged.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2057-0
- OCLC:
- 956541806
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