Thanks Grace. Informative as usual. I’m definitely going to check out the Pinkerton Podcast. Thomas Pynchon’s book “Against the Day” gives a short history of the Pinkerton Agency, specifically how they recruited gunslingers (outlaws/killers), including famous ones. I’m interested in the history of policing in general as the OG anti-insurrection, anti-mutiny force for the ruling class. Police unions, usually called Guilds, are the only worker unions with any power because they work for the so-called elites, yet we the people fund them! The police are feared and loathed worldwide, yet police procedurals (designed to humanize and counter negative perceptions) are one of the largest genres on TV and film. Think the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Princess Brides six-fingered man for some artistic examples. I could go on and on about this topic.
I’m a paid subscriber to More Perfect Union, so I too am a big fan of their work. It seems to me that you would be a good fit somewhere in their operations. 🙂
Thanks Grace. Informative as usual. I’m definitely going to check out the Pinkerton Podcast. Thomas Pynchon’s book “Against the Day” gives a short history of the Pinkerton Agency, specifically how they recruited gunslingers (outlaws/killers), including famous ones. I’m interested in the history of policing in general as the OG anti-insurrection, anti-mutiny force for the ruling class. Police unions, usually called Guilds, are the only worker unions with any power because they work for the so-called elites, yet we the people fund them! The police are feared and loathed worldwide, yet police procedurals (designed to humanize and counter negative perceptions) are one of the largest genres on TV and film. Think the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Princess Brides six-fingered man for some artistic examples. I could go on and on about this topic.
I’m a paid subscriber to More Perfect Union, so I too am a big fan of their work. It seems to me that you would be a good fit somewhere in their operations. 🙂
A trawl through the IWW (North America) archive throws up a fair trove of Pinkerton tales if this is of any interest to you, John?
https://archive.iww.org/
In solidarity! ✊😊
Thanks for the link. Lots of good information there.
Excellent！
"If you, as a left party, continuously repeat the message ‘you’re poor because of migrants’"
- then you either lack a basic grasp of political economics, or else are otherwise wilfully perpetuating populist myths out of craven opportunism?
In solidarity & with gratitude! 😊👍