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Author : Allan Pinkerton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337702601
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pinkerton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pinkerton
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ISBN 13 : 9781022347915
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (479 download)
Download or read book Strikers, Communists, Tramps And Detectives, Page 64 written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Paul O'Hara
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421420570
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs written by S. Paul O'Hara and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Author : Allan Pinkerton
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Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Buchols and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kim Moody
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608467570
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Tramps & Trade Union Travelers written by Kim Moody and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of On New Terrain, a historical examination of why American workers never organized in early industrial America and what it means today. Why has there been no viable, independent labor party in the United States? Many people assert “American exceptionalist” arguments, which state a lack of class-consciousness and union tradition among American workers is to blame. While the racial, ethnic, and gender divisions within the American working class have created organizational challenges for the working class, Moody uses archival research to argue that despite their divisions, workers of all ethnic and racial groups in the Gilded Age often displayed high levels of class consciousness and political radicalism. In place of “American exceptionalism,” Moody contends that high levels of internal migration during the late 1800s created instability in the union and political organizations of workers. Because of the tumultuous conditions brought on by the uneven industrialization of early American capitalism, millions of workers became migrants, moving from state to state and city to city. The organizational weakness that resulted undermined efforts by American workers to build independent labor-based parties in the 1880s and 1890s. Using detailed research and primary sources, Moody traces how it was that “pure-and-simple” unionism would triumph by the end of the century despite the existence of a significant socialist minority in organized labor at that time. “Terrific . . . An entirely original take on . . . why American labor was virtually unique in failing to build its own political party. But there’s much more: in investigating labor migration and the ‘tramp’ phenomenon in the Gilded Age, he discovers fascinating parallels with today's struggles of immigrant workers.” —Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream
Author : Phoebe S. K. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195372417
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Camping Grounds written by Phoebe S. K. Young and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camping Grounds narrates a quintessentially American tradition of sleeping outdoors, from the Civil War to the present, that will appeal to academics, outdoor enthusiasts, and general readers alike.
Author : Tim Cresswell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861895682
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The Tramp in America written by Tim Cresswell and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first account of the invention of the tramp as a social type in the United States between the 1870s and the 1930s. Tim Cresswell considers the ways in which the tramp was imagined and described and how, by World War II, it was being reclassified and rendered invisible. He describes the "tramp scare" of the late nineteenth century and explores the assumption that tramps were invariably male and therefore a threat to women. Cresswell also examines tramps as comic figures and looks at the work of prominent American photographers which signaled a sympathetic portrayal of this often-despised group. Perhaps most significantly, The Tramp in America calls into question the common assumption that mobility played a central role in the production of American identity. “This is an effective, and sometimes touching, account of how a social phenomenon was created, classified and reclassified. The quality of the writing, the excellent illustrations and the high production standards give this reasonably-priced hardback a chance of appealing to a general audience . . . an important contribution to American studies, providing new perspectives on the significance of mobility and rootlessness at an important time in the development of the nation. Cresswell successfully illuminates the history of a disadvantaged and marginal group, while providing a lens by which to focus on the thinking and practices of the mainstream culture with which they dealt. As such, this book represents a considerable achievement.”—Cultural Geographies “An important book. Cresswell has made an important contribution to a homelessness literature still lacking a more sophisticated theoretical edge. Clearly written, beautifully illustrated and with a strong argument throughout, the book deserves to be widely read by students and practitioners alike.”—Progress in Human Geography
Author : Owen Clayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009348035
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos written by Owen Clayton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around the terms 'hobo', 'tramp', and 'vagabond'.
Author : J. Kenneth Van Dover
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726409
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (264 download)
Download or read book You Know My Method written by J. Kenneth Van Dover and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the interrelations between the development of detective novels and the codification of scientific methods from the mid- 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Shows how fictional detectives increasingly drew on science and helped raise its esteem among the public. Focuses on Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, and Arthur B. Reeve, but also notes other writers. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Frank Wadleigh Chandler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Literature of Roguery written by Frank Wadleigh Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Curtis Stokes
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0870139584
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Race and Human Rights written by Curtis Stokes and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrorist attacks against U.S. targets on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, sparked an intense debate about "human rights." According to contributors to this provocative book, the discussion of human rights to date has been far too narrow. They argue that any conversation about human rights in the United States must include equal rights for all residents. Essays examine the historical and intellectual context for the modern debate about human rights, the racial implications of the war on terrorism, the intersection of racial oppression, and the national security state. Others look at the Pinkerton detective agency as a forerunner of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the role of Africa in post–World War II American attempts at empire-building, and the role of immigration as a human rights issue.
Author : Robert S. Farnsworth
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480927074
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Grand Western Railroad Game written by Robert S. Farnsworth and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Western Railroad Game By: Robert S. Farnsworth The Grand Western Railroad Game by Robert S. Farnsworth is a fascinatingly detailed story of the historical importance of Western railroads. It has been meticulously written to educate the reader on the intricacies involved in the creation and growth of the Rock Island System over the “Empire Years.” The railroad’s premium passenger train service even inspired the popular song “The Rock Island Line is a Mighty Fine Line.” To quote the author, “I wrote this book, not from just the viewpoint of a rail fan, hundreds of whom have diligently photographically documented the railroad’s passage through time, but from the viewpoint of a former employee and from the insights gained from a broad education in both the university and in the experience of a practiced transportation planner. I hope that the reader will learn from the stories told here that the workers tried valiantly to do their jobs, that the line’s managers were forced to play with the hand that was dealt to them from a less than full deck, and that investors expected to get a reasonable return on the often gigantic sums paid into the corporation. “I hope that the information contained within these covers leads others toward more detailed studies of the railroads and of the conditions in which they survived, if not prospered.”
Author : Tim Davenport
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642590886
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Vol. III written by Tim Davenport and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene V. Debs exploded upon the national scene in 1894 as the leader of a sensational strike by his American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Parlor Car Company—a job stoppage which paralyzed the country's transportation network for nearly two weeks. On January 1, 1897, the polarizing public figure Debs declared his allegiance to international socialism, emerging as the most widely recognized socialist in America. He would thereafter tour the country relentlessly, speaking to large audiences and writing hundreds of articles on political and economic themes over the ensuing three decades. Debs almost singlehandedly established a new political party, the Social Democracy of America, in the summer of 1897, building upon the remnants of the depleted ARU. The organization advanced a double agenda, seeking to promote both electoral politics and the construction of socialist colonies on the frontier—a dual focus which led to internal tensions and a bitter split. In 1898 Debs cast his lot with Milwaukee publisher Victor L. Berger in a new organization dedicated to political action, the Social Democratic Party of America. After a split of the older and larger Socialist Labor Party of America in 1899, protracted unity discussions between the Debs group and an organized body of former SLP dissidents ensued. This unity effort was marked by Debs's first run for president of the United States on a joint Social Democratic ticket in November 1900. After heated on-again off-again negotiation between the two groups, a marriage was finally brokered in the summer of 1901 and the Socialist Party of America was launched. The party would soon grow to become the third biggest in American politics, with Debs enthusiastically heading the Socialist ticket in 1904 in the second of his five runs for the presidency.
Author : John Rogers Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Labour in the United States: Humanitarianism (1840 -- 1860) written by John Rogers Commons and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Rogers Commons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of Labour in the United States: Nationalisation (1860-1877) written by John Rogers Commons and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
