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.
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