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Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990 (Shepperson Series in Nevada History)
Joanne L. Goodwin
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Description for Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990 (Shepperson Series in Nevada History)
Paperback. Breaking free of assigned gender roles in the workplace Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 3JJP; HBTB; HBTD; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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 labour 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 ... Read more
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 labour 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874179606
SKU
V9780874179606
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Ref
99-3
About Joanne L. Goodwin
Joanne L. Goodwin is professor of history and director of the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, 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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