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Changing the Game - Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990 (Paperback)
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Changing the Game - Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990 (Paperback)
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The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought an influx
of both women and men looking to work in the expanding hotel and
casino industries. In fact, for the next fifty years the proportion
of women in the labor force was greater in Las Vegas than the
United States as a whole. Joanne L. Goodwin's study captures the
shifting boundaries of women's employment in the postwar decades
with narratives drawn from the Las Vegas Women Oral History
Project. It counters cliched pictures of women at work in the famed
resort city as it explores women's real strategies for economic
survival and success.
Their experiences anticipated major trends in post\-World War II
labor history: the national migration of workers during and after
the war, the growing proportion of women in the labor force,
balancing work with family life, the unionization of service
workers, and, above all, the desegregation of the labor force by
sex and race. These narratives show women in Las Vegas resisting
preassigned roles, seeing their work as a testimony of skill, a
measure of independence, and a fulfillment of needs. Overall, these
stories of women who lived and worked in Las Vegas in the last half
of the twentieth century reveal much about the broader transitions
for women in America between 1940 and 1990.
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