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Casino Women : Courage in Unexpected Places by Susan Kerr Chandler; Jill B Jones is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Casino Women : Courage in Unexpected Places about?

Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers, and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent on the labor of women assigned stereotypically female occupations making beds and serving food on the one hand and providing sexual allure on the other. But behind the neon lies another world, peopled by thousands of remarkable women who assert their humanity in the face of gaming empires' relentless quest for profits. The casino women profiled here generally fall into two groups. Geoconda Arguello Kline, typical of the first, arrived in the United States in the 1980s fleeing the war in Nicaragua. Finding work as a Las Vegas hotel maid, she overcame her initial fear of organizing and joined with others to build the preeminent grassroots union in the nation the 60,000-member Culinary Union becoming in time its president. In Las Vegas, "the hottest union city in America," the collective actions of union activists have won economic and political power for tens of thousands of working Neva

Author

Susan Kerr Chandler; Jill B Jones

Publisher

Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801450143

Subjects

Political Science, Travel, Science