At least not according to the dominant narrative. Branko Milanovic, one of the worldâs leading experts in global income inequality, argues that while inequality is getting worse within countries, on a global scale it is actually getting better. We can measure income inequality with the Gini index.
The Pinkerton National Detective Agency, founded in Chicago in 1850, was long the nation's largest and most proficient private detective agency. For corporate Americaânotably railroads, mines, and others involved in interstate commerceâit stood as an effective check on troublemakers within and without.
, Representing the USA for over 40 years, officially and non-officially. 1  Pinkerton did shift into paramilitary operations, but at an earlier date and, due to the way the world was at the time, on the domestic front. During the late 19th and early 20th C., Pinkerton was very active in anti-union repression.