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"The eye that never sleeps" : a history of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
- Title
- "The eye that never sleeps" : a history of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency / Frank Morn.
- Author
- Morn, Frank, 1937-
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1982.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HV8087 .M67 1982 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 244 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Raises important questions about the constituencies and social functions of both public and private police from the 1850's to the 1920's. At first the agency was seen as an alternative tot he police for those fearful of expanding governmental power. In the nineteenth centure, the private police agency could fill the gap left by inadequate public police activity and jurisdiction. Pinkerton agents were soon famous for their incredible success in detecting crime and apprehending criminals. But they were also dislike fro their coercive role in labor disputes and feared for the threat to privacy that detection work in general represented.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [193]-207.
- Contents
- Chicago genesis: two models of provate detective agencies, 1855-1860 -- Lessons of war: regionalism to nationalism -- Pinkerton and the Pinkerton men: the detective as administrator -- Private detectives and public images -- Knights of Labor vs. Knights of Capitalism -- Professional criminals and crime prevention -- Professional criminals and criminal apprehension -- Pinkerton opertives and operations -- "Mushroom agencies" in the Progressive Era -- Epilogue: private detection to private security.
- ISBN
- 0253320860
- 9780253320865
- LCCN
- 81047776
- OCLC
- ocm07975921
- 7975921
- SCSB-40717
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library