Casino women
Subtitle: the courageous struggle of maids, waitresses, and dealers for workplace Rights
By: Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones
Contributors: Jones, Jill B.
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801450143
Subjects: Gambling industry; Employees; Casinos; Women service industries workers; Employee rights
Description: Examines the female face of corporate gaming, including interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, and vice presidents, and discussing in detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent on the labor of women assigned stereotypically female occupations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: You have to do it for the people coming; title: They're treating us like donkeys, really : housekeeping and other back of the house work; title: Kiss my foot : cocktail waitressing; title: I'll always love the union; title: Here's my heart; title: Darlene Jespersen v. Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.; title: Liberation theology, pit boss style; title: Dealing : the view from dead center; title: Stuck; title: Big tobacco rides the strip; title: Crossing over to the other side.