Pinkertonism

Pinkertonism refers to the policy, mindset and actions of the Pinkerton detective agency. Established in the United States by Allan Pinkerton in 1850, the agency is well known for infiltrating and sabotaging unions.

History
In the 1850s, Allan Pinkerton, Scottish detective and spy, met Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in a local Masonic Hall and formed the North-Western Police Agency, later known as the Pinkerton Agency. Among the business's early operations was to safely deliver the newly-elected President of the United States Abraham Lincoln to Washington D.C. in light of an assassination threat. Pinkerton detective Kate Warne was assigned and successfully delivered Lincoln to the US capital city through a series of disguises and related tactics that required her to stay awake throughout the entire long journey. As a result of the public notoriety of this success, the business adapted an open eye as its logo and the slogan, "We never sleep".

In the 1870s, Franklin B. Gowen, then president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, hired the agency to "investigate" the labor unions in the company's mines. A Pinkerton agent, James McParland, using the alias "James McKenna", infiltrated the Molly Maguires, a 19th-century secret society of mainly Irish-American coal miners, leading to the downfall of the labor organization. On July 6, 1892, during the Homestead Strike, 300 Pinkerton detectives from New York and Chicago were called in by Carnegie Steel's Henry Clay Frick to protect the Pittsburgh-area mill and strikebreakers. This resulted in a firefight and siege in which 16 men were killed, and 23 others were wounded. To restore order, two brigades of the Pennsylvania militia were called out by the Governor.

Due to its conflicts with labor unions, the word Pinkerton continues to be associated by labor organizers and union members with strikebreaking. Pinkertons diversified from labor spying following revelations publicized by the La Follette Committee hearings in 1937, and the firm's criminal detection work also suffered from the police modernization movement, which saw the rise of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the bolstering of detective branches and resources of the public police. With less of the labor and criminal investigation work on which Pinkertons thrived for decades, the company became increasingly involved in protection services, and in the 1960s, even the word "detective" disappeared from the agency's letterhead. The company now focuses on threat intelligence, risk management, executive protection, and active shooter response.

In 1999, the company was bought by Securitas AB, a Swedish security company, for $384 million, followed by the acquisition of the William J. Burns Detective Agency (founded in 1910), longtime Pinkerton rival, to create (as a division of the parent) Securitas Security Services USA. Today, the company's headquarters are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Personality and Behavior
Pinkertonism is an insomniac. He is calculating and fast, and is valued for his skill.

Friends

 * [[File:Corp.png]] Corporatocracy - A worthy employer.
 * [[File:Ancapf.png]] Anarcho-Capitalism - Oh, you need private law enforcement? How convenient.
 * [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] Neoliberalism - Those unions sure are annoying, huh.
 * [[File:PolState.png]] Police Statism - We do your job better than you do.
 * [[File:Lincolnism.png]] Abraham Lincoln - We will protect you Mr President.

Enemies

 * [[File:Klep.png]] Kleptocracy - Criminals better watch their backs.
 * [[File:Synd.png]] Syndicalism - Unions better watch their backs.
 * [[File:Cball-CSA.png]] The Confederacy - Lincoln never sleeps.

Wikipedia

 * Pinkertons

Books
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Evil-Isms-Pinkertonism-Anarchism/dp/1332220444