World War I and Urban Order : The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization

"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"--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: World War I and the City....Pages 1-10 Portland: Middle-Class Paradise or City of Struggle?....Pages 11-35 Policing Everyday Life: Federal Power, Local Elites, and Citizen Spies....Pages 37-56 Policing the Shipyards: The EFC and the Federal Struggle for Urban Industrial Order....Pages 57-80 Wartime Class Struggle: The Portland Labor Movement and the Industrial Peace Regime....Pages 81-103 Internment and Urban Moral Order: Enemy Aliens and “Silk Stocking Girls”....Pages 105-125 Postwar Clash: The Portland Soviet and the Localized Struggle over the Emergence of Communism....Pages 127-148 Epilogue....Pages 149-153 Back Matter....Pages 155-198