An edition of Inventing the Pinkertons, or, Spies, sleuths, mercenaries, and thugs (2016)
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
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Publish Date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
eng
Pages
205
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"--