Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Pinkerton Detective Agency Operates as Private Corporate Army Against Unions

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The Pinkerton National Detective Agency operates throughout the Gilded Age as a private corporate army deployed against labor organizing, providing armed guards, infiltration agents, and strikebreaking services to employers seeking to crush unions through surveillance, espionage, and violence. …

Pinkerton National Detective Agency Allan Pinkerton Corporate employers State governments Labor unions gilded-age labor-suppression private-security corporate-violence union-busting +1 more
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