S Paul O Hara: 2 books
Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs
Being a story of the nation’s most famous (and infamous) detective agency
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
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...
After the Factory
Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity...