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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 by S. Paul O'Hara (2016, Hardcover)

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This accessible, illustrated narrative for students, general readers, and scholars details the history of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency from 1865 to 1937. Th concludes by revealing the forces that led to the end of the Pinkerton agency.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-101421420562

ISBN-139781421420561

eBay Product ID (ePID)219644639

Product Key Features

Book TitleInventing the Pinkertons, Or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs : Being a Story of the Nation's Most Famous (And Infamous) Detective Agency

Number of Pages216 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicLabor & Industrial Relations, United States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century, Social History, Law Enforcement, Labor

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Business & Economics, History

TypeTextbook

AuthorS. Paul O'hara

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-046698

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"" Inventing the Pinkertons is a welcome addition to the history of the long Gilded Age. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in American popular culture, business-government relations, the ongoing struggle between labor and capital, and the formation of the modern surveillance-police state."", Inventing the Pinkertons is a welcome addition to the history of the long Gilded Age. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in American popular culture, business-government relations, the ongoing struggle between labor and capital, and the formation of the modern surveillance-police state.

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal363.28/90973

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, or heroes and villains of the Gilded Age Chapter 1: In which Allan Pinkerton creates his agency The making of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton goes to war Crafting the Pinkerton detective Conclusion: a detective mytholog y Chapter 2: In which Pinkerton Men become the anti-heroes of the middle west Mississippi Outlaws The Outlaw Jesse James Wild bandits of the border Conclusion: Highwaymen of the Railroad Chapter 3: In which Pinkerton agents infiltrate secret societies A Noxious Weed of Ireland Among the Assassins! Strikers, Communists, Tramps, and Detectives Conclusion: Anarchists and the Detectives Chapter 4: 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 5: In which Pinkerton myrmidons invade Homestead The Great Battle of Homestead Mr. Frick's hired invaders The Pinkerton system is a standing menace to order and good government Conclusion: Pinkerton raiders, the advance guard to Poles and Hungarians Chapter 6: In which the disgrace of Pinkertonism is subjected to public scrutiny Protecting property from the"" Tyranny of the Homestead Mo"" Protecting free labor from ""this gang of Hessians"" Protecting society from the ""Disgrace of Pinkertonism"" Conclusion: Lessons on Corporate management from the Mercenaries of the Oligarchy Chapter 7: In which the frontier closes and Pinkerton practices are exposed A Cowboy Detective and a Labor Spy Surrounded with lice, Pinkerton detectives and other vermin Pinking the Pinkertons Conclusion: Anarchists and the Detectives, reconsidered Chapter 8: In which the modern state takes on the duties of the Pinkerton agency Birdy Edwards and the last myth of the Pinkertons The modern state and the detectives Stool Pigeons, Company gunmen, and the New Deal Conclusion: Dashiell Hammett, Pinkerton Conclusion: Pinkerton's Inc.

SynopsisThe fascinating story of the most notorious detective agency in US history. Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that armed Pinkertons were capital's tool to crush worker dissent. Yet the image of the Pinkerton detective also inspired romantic and sensationalist novels, reflected shifting ideals of Victorian manhood, and embodied a particular kind of rough frontier justice. Inventing the Pinkertons examines the evolution of the agency as a pivotal institution in the cultural history of American monopoly capitalism. Historian S. Paul O'Hara intertwines political, social, and cultural history to reveal how Scottish-born founder Allan Pinkerton insinuated his way to power and influence as a purveyor of valuable (and often wildly wrong) intelligence in the Union cause. During Reconstruction, Pinkerton turned his agents into icons of law and order in the Wild West. Finally, he transformed his firm into a for-rent private army in the war of industry against labor. Having begun life as peddlers of information and guardians of mail bags, the Pinkertons became armed mercenaries, protecting scabs and corporate property from angry strikers. 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, Inventing the Pinkertons is a gripping look at how the histories of American capitalism, industrial folklore, and the nation-state converged., Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that armed Pinkertons were capital's tool to crush worker dissent. Yet the image of the Pinkerton detective also inspired romantic and sensationalist novels, reflected shifting ideals of Victorian manhood, and embodied a particular kind of rough frontier justice. Inventing the Pinkertons examines the evolution of the agency as a pivotal institution in the cultural history of American monopoly capitalism. Historian S. Paul O'Hara intertwines political, social, and cultural history to reveal how Scottish-born founder Allan Pinkerton insinuated his way to power and influence as a purveyor of valuable (and often wildly wrong) intelligence in the Union cause. During Reconstruction, Pinkerton turned his agents into icons of law and order in the Wild West. Finally, he transformed his firm into a for-rent private army in the war of industry against labor. Having begun life as peddlers of information and guardians of mail bags, the Pinkertons became armed mercenaries, protecting scabs and corporate property from angry strikers. 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, Inventing the Pinkertons is a gripping look at how the histories of American capitalism, industrial folklore, and the nation-state converged., Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that armed Pinkertons were capital's tool to crush ......

LC Classification NumberHV8087.P75O43 2016