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.

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

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