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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

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O'Hara, S. Paul

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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2016.

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English

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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.

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
Electronic books
General
Histoire
History
Industrial relations
Industrial relations -- United States -- History
Infrastructure
Labor
Labor -- United States -- History
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
Pinkerton, Allan
Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884
Private investigators
Private investigators -- United States -- History
Relations industrielles
Relations industrielles -- États-Unis -- Histoire
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
Travail
Travail -- États-Unis -- Histoire
United States

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9781421420561
9781421420578

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