Meet Joe Copper : masculinity and race on Montana’s World War II home front / Matthew L. Basso.

Basso, Matthew.
Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-342) and index.
  • Introduction: GI Joe and Rosie the riveter, meet Joe Copper! — 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 servicemen, 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.

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