Title 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.

Publication Info.	Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
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Description	vi, 194 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, or heroes and villains of the Gilded Age -- Chapter one. In which Allan Pinkerton created his agency -- Chapter two. In which Pinkerton men become the antiheroes of the middle west -- Chapter three. In which Pinkerton agents infiltrate secret societies -- Chapter four. In which the Pinks serve as a private army for capital -- Chapter five. In which Pinkerton myrmidons invade Homestead -- Chapter six. In which the disgrace of Pinkertonism is subjected to public scrutiny -- Chapter seven. In which the frontier closes and Pinkerton practices are exposed -- Chapter eight. In which the modern state takes on the duties of the Pinkerton agency -- Conclusion. Pinkerton's Inc.
Summary	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
	Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884.
	Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884. (OCoLC)fst00003256
	Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. (OCoLC)fst00557212
	Private investigators -- United States -- History.
	Industrial relations -- United States -- History.
	Labor -- United States -- History.
	Industrial relations. (OCoLC)fst00971609
	Labor. (OCoLC)fst00989798
	Private investigators. (OCoLC)fst01077503
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Spies, sleuths, mercenaries, and thugs
ISBN	9781421420561 hardcover alkaline paper
	1421420562 hardcover alkaline paper
	9781421420578 electronic book
	1421420570 electronic book

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