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The labor of luck : casino capitalism in the United States and South Africa /
In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J. Sallaz goes behind the scenes of the global casino industry to investigate the radically different worlds of work and leisure he found in identically designed casinos in the United States and South Africa. Seamlessly weaving political and economic history wit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J. Sallaz goes behind the scenes of the global casino industry to investigate the radically different worlds of work and leisure he found in identically designed casinos in the United States and South Africa. Seamlessly weaving political and economic history with his own personal experience, Sallaz provides a riveting account of two years spent working among both countries' casino dealers, pit bosses, and politicians. While the popular imagination sees the Nevada casino as a hedonistic world of consumption, The Labor of Luck shows that the "Vegas experienc. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 326 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-309) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520944657 0520944658 1282359886 9781282359888 9786612359880 6612359889 |