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It should also be borne in mind that the industrial working class never formed a majority of the American population. For most of the nineteenth century the farmers were the majority;[...]Organized labour thus operated from a weak basis...
— Sep 27, 2015 05:14AM
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Traveller
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Pinkerton’s Detective Agency, a sinister body which got its start during the Civil War and subsequently became the industrialists’ secret police, furnishing spies, gunmen and strike-breakers on demand. (The Pinkerton tradition was to prove all too durable, and was influential in the founding conception of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, set up in 1908.)
— Sep 27, 2015 05:32AM
Traveller
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Attempts to wrest some concessions from the mine-owners in western Pennsylvania through a secret society, mostly Irish, known as the Molly Maguires, failed when ten of the leaders were hanged for murder and conspiracy in 1876. The evidence against them was provided by an undercover agent employed by Pinkerton’s Detective Agency, a sinister body which got its start during the Civil War and subsequently became the indu
— Sep 27, 2015 05:31AM
Traveller
is on page 380 of 752
Hmmmmm - I started this book in the middle, and was taken aback about the things he said about native Americans, only to realize that he calls native Americans "Indians". To me, Indians hail from India. How annoying. ...so he means multi-generational white Americans when he says native Americans.
— Sep 25, 2015 07:35AM
