Casino Women : : Courage in Unexpected Places /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Chandler, Susan,
Jones, Jill B.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2016
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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