Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION

1
Prelude to War
2
The Second Gold Rush
3
Wartime Shipyards and the Transformation of Labor
4
The Making of Migrant Ghettos
5
Migrant Families and Communities
6
Boomtowns and the Control of Urban Space
7
Mobilizing Politics
8
Boomtown Blues

CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Plates

About the Author

Marilynn S. Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Boston College.