This book uses Portland, Oregon to bring to life the transformation of U.S. cities during the first truly national war mobilization effort. World War I had an enormous impact on urban life and the relationship between cities and the federal government that has been almost entirely unexplored until now.

Presents a close study of the impact of World War I on local politics, labor, urban governance, and daily life in Portland, Oregon Sheds light on how World War I dramatically changed the scope of governance to everyday life in American cities Explores urban class politics, labor relations, radicalism, anti-radicalism, and the Red Scare

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Adam J. Hodges is Associate Professor of History at the University of HoustonClear Lake, USA. He earned a B.Sc. at the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He has published peer-reviewed articles on labor history and urban class politics during the Progressive Era.

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World War I had an enormous impact on urban life and the relationship between cities and the federal government that has been almost entirely unexplored until now. This book uses Portland, Oregon to bring to life the transformation of U.S. cities during the first truly national war mobilization effort. This history of a struggle over urban order during an unprecedented crisis is one of people more than institutions and of the grassroots more than elites. The labor movement, at the heart of wartime working-class aspiration, is likewise at the heart of this story. The book also examines how those who lived in rapidly changing war boom cities experienced the era. Hodges captures both extraordinary events, including the internment of enemy aliens and women with venereal disease, and the fascinating everyday dynamics of conflict and cooperation in a novel moment of scarcity and opportunity that changed urban life.

Inhalt

1.Introduction

2.Portland: Middle-Class Paradise or City of Struggle?

3.Policing Everyday Life: Federal Power, Local Elites, and Citizen Spies

4.Policing the Shipyards: The EFC and the Federal Struggle for Urban Industrial Order

5.Wartime Class Struggle: The Portland Labor Movement and the Industrial Peace Regime

6.Internment and Urban Moral Order: Enemy Aliens and 'Silk Stocking Girls'

7.Postwar Clash: The Portland Soviet and the Localized Struggle Over the Emergence of Communism

8.Epilogue