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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Meet Joe Copper : masculinity and race on Montana's World War II home front by Matthew Basso. ISBN 9780226044194. Published by The University of Chicago Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
