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Meet Joe Copper : masculinity and race on Montana's World War II home front /
"I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun." So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, fields, and mines while their compatriots fou...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Rosie the riveter and GI Joe, meet Joe Copper!
- White labor, 1882-1940
- Butte: only white men and dagoes
- Black Eagle: immigrants' bond
- Anaconda: husky smeltermen and company boys
- Copper men and the challenges of the early-war home front
- Re-drafting masculinity: breadwinners, shirkers, or soldiers of production
- The emerging labor shortage: independent masculinity, patriotic demands, and the threat of new workers
- Making the home front social order
- Butte, 1942: white men, black soldier-miners, and the limits of popular front interracialism
- Black Eagle, 1943: home front soldiers, women workers, and the maintenance of immigrant masculinity
- Anaconda, 1944: white women, men of color, and cross-class
- White male solidarity
- Conclusion: the man in the blue collar shirt: the working class and postwar masculinity.