Title: Inventing the Pinkertons, or, Spies, sleuths, mercenaries, and thugs
Description: "O'Hara argues that American capitalists used the Pinkertons to enforce new structures of economic and political order. Yet the infamy of the Pinkerton agent also gave critics and working communities a villain against which to frame their resistance to the new industrial order. Ultimately, [this book examines] how the histories of American capitalism, industrial folklore, and the nation-state converged"--
Subjects: Private investigators, History, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, Industrial relations, Labor, Industrial relations, united states, Labor, united states
Places: United States
People: Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884)