Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940 to 1990 - Brossura

Libro 19 di 32: Shepperson Series in Nevada History

Goodwin, Joanne L.

 
9780874179606: Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940 to 1990
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ISBN 10: 0874179602 ISBN 13: 9780874179606
Casa editrice: Univ of Nevada Pr, 2014

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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 clichéd 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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Informazioni sull?autore

Joanne L. Goodwin is professor of history and director of the Women&;s Research Institute of Nevada at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she was instrumental in developing the Nevada Women&;s Archive at Lied Library and the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project.

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Editore
Univ of Nevada Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2014
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0874179602
ISBN 13 
9780874179606
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
216
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