Описание: Liberalism Race and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia.
Автор: Mutari Ellen, Figart Deborah M. Название: Just One More Hand: Life in the Casino Economy ISBN: 1442236671 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442236677 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 9293.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Where jobs in the casino industry once paid well, market saturation is making it harder for workers to make it on their salaries. Through examining this shift, the contributors discuss how this could reflect similar changes for workers in different industries.
Автор: Mazar, Alissa (university Of Massachusetts Amherst, Usa) Название: Deindustrialization and casinos ISBN: 0367463814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367463816 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through a study of Windsor - Canada`s automotive capital - as a pilot site for casino development in Ontario, this book considers what casino developments do - and do not do - for host communities in terms of economic growth, asking whether they constitute a ready answer to the problems of industrial and economic decline.
Описание: Originally published in 1989. This book looks at five regions of the USA then four perspective studies then connect the diverse experiences to intra-metropolitan spatial adjustments, growth prospects for industry and services, and evolving regional theory and policy.
Описание: Targeted analytics to address the unique opportunities in hospitality and gaming The Analytic Hospitality Executive helps decision makers understand big data and how it can drive value in the industry.
Автор: Murphy, Seamus (university Of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom) Название: Casino and society in britain ISBN: 0367626888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367626884 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War. This book will be of interest to historians, criminologists, regulators, students and individuals interested in gambling, society and cultural history.
Автор: Susan Chandler, Jill B. Jones Название: Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places ISBN: 1501705628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501705625 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3380.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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.
One of the largest casino-entertainment venues in Macao is called City of Dreams. True to its name, it is a city unto itself, devoted entirely to pleasure, consumption and luxury living. The massive campus includes luxury residences and high-end retail stores, restaurants, spas, extravagant performance venues and, of course, gaming facilities. The City of Dreams is an enclosed city with its own interior "boulevards" and its own theater district, called "Soho." It even has its own blue-chip architecture, the Morpheus, a luxury hotel designed by the late Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE, using the world's most advanced and innovative building technology.
This is a study of the nature of casino cities through Macao's stories. The author examines how the development of the city into a world gambling and entertainment capital affects the daily lives of the city's residents. The literary or filmic narratives of Macao capture how it feels to be citizens of these cities, the emotional responses, and thoughts of those who living within the conditions of these dreamworlds. But importantly, they also reveal the kinds of imagination and creativity of those living there and their strategies of taking hold of the narrative of the city for themselves, against the dominant state discourse.
The writings discussed in this volume are all published after the liberalization of the gambling industry in Macao in 2002, when the city embarked on an accelerated and dramatic transformation. The contemporary literary scene in Macao is lively and diverse, impressive given how small the population the population is (a little over 600,000) vis- -vis an all-encompassing casino industry and the tens of millions of tourists it brings to the city every year. The author discusses works from fiction writers who live and work primarily in Macao, as well as refer to the works of essayists and social commentators who regularly publish in the local print media. Also included are writers who might not have a resident card but have strong personal or historic ties to the city, either through a career opportunity that brought them there, family history, or having grown up there. The author uses their works to study the effect of contemporary Macao on the global imagination, especially under the current regime of global circulation of capital and people.
Through these works, the author presents another way of understanding Macao, beyond the official measures of GDPs and economics. The author captures the often-inarticulate sentiments and aspirations of the common people, in order to challenge and change the direction, discursive as well as political, of the society. In so doing, the author overlays the official ideology of this kind of casino city that Macao represents with a complex network of the experiences and stories of those who live in it, under its specific economic and social compulsions. In each chapter of Dreamworld of Casino Capitalism, the author examines particular works that illustrate a different experiential and emotional phenomenon of life in this city.
Автор: Murphy, Seamus Название: The Casino and Society in Britain ISBN: 1138318957 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138318953 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War. This book will be of interest to historians, criminologists, regulators, students and individuals interested in gambling, society and cultural history.
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