Casino Women : : Courage in Unexpected Places / / Susan Chandler, Jill B. Jones.
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 dependen...
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Chandler, Susan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Casino Women : Courage in Unexpected Places / Susan Chandler, Jill B. Jones. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2016 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "You Have to Do It for the People Coming" -- Part I. Back of the House, Front of the House -- 2. "They're Treating Us Like Donkeys, Really": Housekeeping and Other Back of the House Work -- 3. "Kiss My Foot": Cocktail Waitressing -- Part II. Union Women -- 4. "I'll Always Love the Union" -- 5. "Here's My Heart" -- Part III. Nonunion Women Stand Up -- 6. Darlene Jespersen v. Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. -- 7. Liberation Theology, Pit Boss Style -- Part IV. Dealers: The Illusion of Power -- 8. Dealing: The View from Dead Center -- 9. Stuck -- 10. Big Tobacco Rides the Strip -- Part V. Women in Management -- 11. Crossing Over to the Other Side -- 12. Conclusion: "A Marvelous Victory" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 Nevadans and their families. The story of these women's transformation and their success in creating a union able to face off against global gaming giants form the centerpiece of this book.Another group of women, dealers and middle managers among them, did not act. Fearful of losing their jobs, they remained silent, declining to speak out when others were abused, and in the case of middle managers, taking on the corporations' goals as their own. Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones appraise the cost of their silence and examine the factors that pushed some women into activism and led others to accept the status quo.Casino Women will appeal to all readers interested in women, gambling, and working-class life, and in how ordinary people stand up to corporate actors who appear to hold all the cards. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Casinos Nevada Employees. Employee rights Nevada. Gambling industry Nevada Employees. Women service industries workers Nevada. Labor History. Sociology & Social Science. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. bisacsh Jones, Jill B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801450143 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801462696 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801462696 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801462696/original |
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