From steel to slots : casino capitalism in the postindustrial city /

From steel to slots : casino capitalism in the postindustrial city /

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Author / Creator:Taft, Chloe E., author.
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Casinos -- Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem.
Globalization -- Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem.
Casinos.
Economic history.
Globalization.
Bethlehem (Pa.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11909566
Related Items:Based on (work): From steel to slots.
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ISBN:9780674970229
0674970225
9780674660496
0674660498
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 2014).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 30, 2016).
Summary:"Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the world headquarters of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation for most of the twentieth century, is now home to an industrial-themed casino. Based on extensive fieldwork and dozens of interviews, From Steel to Slots explores how the global transitions of "casino capitalism" and a shift towards economies based on service, entertainment, and financial speculation are lived, legitimated, and contested in and through the local landscape of a former industrial city. As legalized gambling spreads in the United States and around the world to drive economic revitalization, create jobs, and generate tax revenues, multinational casino corporations are increasingly acting as urban planners."--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Print version: Druck-Ausgabe Taft, Chloe E. From Steel to Slots . Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City
Standard no.:10.4159/9780674970229

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