The Molly Maguires and the Detectives. : An analysis of the relationship between the use of undercover policingand violent labor conflict.

This paper evaluates the role of private policing in the patterns of violence that were prevalent in the mining regions of eastern Pennsylvania during the 1860s and 1870s, and which were attributed to an Irish secret society called the “Molly Maguires”. This topic has long been subject to academic a...

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Main Author: Torve, Constantin
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen 2021
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445333