The grit beneath the glitter : tales from the real Las Vegas /
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Scripting Las Vegas : noir naïfs, junking up, and the new strip / Norman M. Klein
- Las Vegas of the mind : shooting movies in and about Nevada / Francisco Menendez
- Discordant infrastructure / Peter Goin
- Growth, services, and the political economy of gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000 / Eugene Moehring
- Lighting Las Vegas : electricity and the city of glitz / Jay Brigham
- Build it and the water will come / Jon Christensen
- The social costs of rapid urbanization in Southern Nevada / Robert E. Parker
- Rise to power : the recent history of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas / Courtney Alexander
- Class struggle in Oz / Mike Davis
- "Squeezing the juice out of Las Vegas" : reflections on growing up in Smalltown, USA / Brian Frehner
- I didn't know anybody lived there / Shannon McMackin
- How I became a native / William N. Thompson
- Inside the glitter : lives of casino workers / Kit Miller
- "She works hard for her money" : a reassessment of Las Vegas women workers, 1945-1985 / Joanne L. Goodwin
- The racial cauldron / Mike Davis
- Inside Jean / Constance Devereaux
- Looking into a dry lake : uncovering the women's view of Las Vegas / Amie Williams
- Colony, capital, and Casino : money in the real Las Vegas / Hal Rothman
- Who puts the "sin" in "Sin City" stories? Girls of grit and glitter in the city of women / Kathryn Hausbeck
- Nevada goes global : the foreign gaming rule and the spread of casinos / William N. Thompson
- Canto : Las Vegas / Richard Misrach.