LEADER 04567nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910450082703321 005 20210610020350.0 010 $a0-520-93545-4 010 $a1-282-76241-9 010 $a9786612762413 010 $a1-59734-643-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520935457 035 $a(CKB)1000000000003483 035 $a(EBL)223605 035 $a(OCoLC)475928541 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000165801 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153465 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165801 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10147029 035 $a(PQKB)10088025 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223605 035 $a(DE-B1597)520182 035 $a(OCoLC)56030207 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520935457 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223605 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10062313 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276241 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000003483 100 $a20011004d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe grit beneath the glitter$b[electronic resource] $etales from the real Las Vegas /$fedited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (396 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-20529-4 311 0 $a0-520-22538-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: The Many Faces of Las Vegas --$tScripting Las Vegas: Noir Naïfs, Junking Up, and the New Strip --$tLas Vegas of the Mind: Shooting Movies in and about Nevada --$tDiscordant Infrastructure --$tGrowth, Services, and the Political Economy of Gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000 --$tLighting Las Vegas: Electricity and the City of Glitz --$tBuild It and the Water Will Come --$tThe Social Costs of Rapid Urbanization in Southern Nevada --$tRise to Power: The Recent History of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas --$tClass Struggle in Oz --$t"Squeezing the Juice Out of Las Vegas": Reflections On Growing Up in Smalltown, USA --$tI Didn't Know Anybody Lived There --$tHow I Became a Native --$tInside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers --$t"She Works Hard for Her Money": A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1945-1985 --$tThe Racial Cauldron --$tInside Jean --$tLooking into a Dry Lake: Uncovering the Women's View of Las Vegas A Film Journal --$tColony, Capital, and Casino: Money in the Real Las Vegas --$tWho Puts the "Sin" in "Sin City" Stories? Girls of Grit and Glitter in the City of Women --$tNevada Goes Global: The Foreign Gaming Rule and the Spread of Casinos --$tCanto: Las Vegas --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aThe Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known. They offer a lively and compelling portrait of the other side of Las Vegas: the people and institutions that support the glitter of the gaming and entertainment industry. Examining a range of topics--from the city's commercial history, labor conditions, and environmental problems to an analysis of the famous lights of the Strip--the contributors uncover the contradictions between the illusion and the reality of the city, the seam between fantasy and the life it masks. The essays in this collection explore the world that employees experience when they enter gaming palaces from an employee entrance in a back parking lot rather than through the scripted doors of casino/hotel palaces. They take readers into the neighborhoods where 1.4 million Americans now live, attend school, eat dinner, and go to work. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)$2bisacsh 607 $aLas Vegas (Nev.)$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aLas Vegas (Nev.)$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aLas Vegas (Nev.)$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY). 676 $a979.3/135034 701 $aRothman$b Hal$f1958-2007.$01053264 701 $aDavis$b Mike$f1946-$034824 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450082703321 996 $aThe grit beneath the glitter$92485087 997 $aUNINA