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The grit beneath the glitter [[electronic resource] ] : tales from the real Las Vegas / / edited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis
| The grit beneath the glitter [[electronic resource] ] : tales from the real Las Vegas / / edited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
| Disciplina | 979.3/135034 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RothmanHal <1958-2007.>
DavisMike <1946-2022.> |
| Soggetto topico | HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
| Soggetto non controllato |
academic
casino workers casino culinary drought essay anthology essay collection global hal rotham jon christensen kit miller las vegas strip las vegas mike davis nevada noir norman klein peter goin political economy politics power race issues race racial issues racism regional history regional scholarly sex workers sin city unions urbanization water |
| ISBN |
0-520-93545-4
1-282-76241-9 9786612762413 1-59734-643-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Many Faces of Las Vegas -- Scripting Las Vegas: Noir Naïfs, Junking Up, and the New Strip -- Las Vegas of the Mind: Shooting Movies in and about Nevada -- Discordant Infrastructure -- Growth, Services, and the Political Economy of Gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000 -- Lighting Las Vegas: Electricity and the City of Glitz -- Build It and the Water Will Come -- The Social Costs of Rapid Urbanization in Southern Nevada -- Rise to Power: The Recent History of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas -- Class Struggle in Oz -- "Squeezing the Juice Out of Las Vegas": Reflections On Growing Up in Smalltown, USA -- I Didn't Know Anybody Lived There -- How I Became a Native -- Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers -- "She Works Hard for Her Money": A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1945-1985 -- The Racial Cauldron -- Inside Jean -- Looking into a Dry Lake: Uncovering the Women's View of Las Vegas A Film Journal -- Colony, Capital, and Casino: Money in the Real Las Vegas -- Who Puts the "Sin" in "Sin City" Stories? Girls of Grit and Glitter in the City of Women -- Nevada Goes Global: The Foreign Gaming Rule and the Spread of Casinos -- Canto: Las Vegas -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782968903321 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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No one is illegal [[electronic resource] ] : fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border / / Justin Akers Chacón, Mike Davis ; photographs by Julián Cardona
| No one is illegal [[electronic resource] ] : fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border / / Justin Akers Chacón, Mike Davis ; photographs by Julián Cardona |
| Autore | Akers Chacón Justin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Haymarket Books, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.8/73072 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DavisMike <1946-2022.>
CardonaJulián <1960-2020.> |
| Soggetto topico |
Immigrants - Civil rights - United States
Foreign workers, Mexican - United States - Social conditions |
| ISBN | 1-60846-052-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. I. "What is a vigilante man?" : white violence in California history / Mike Davis -- Introduction -- 1. Pinkertons, Klansmen, and vigilantes -- 2. White savages -- 3. Yellow peril -- 4. "Swat a Jap" -- 5. The anti-Filipino riots -- 6. The IWW versus the KKK -- 7. In dubious battle -- 8. Thank the vigilantes -- 9. The Zoot Suit wars -- 10. Beating the UFW -- 11. The last vigilantes -- pt. II. Mexico : caught in the web of U.S. empire / Justin Akers Chacón -- Introduction -- 12. Conquest sets the stage -- 13. Neoliberalism consumes the "Mexican miracle" -- 14. From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA : profiting from borders -- pt. III. Mexican workers : the "other" American working class -- 15. Mexican workers to the rescue -- 16. Segregated workers : class struggle in the fields -- 17. The Bracero Program : a twentieth-century caste system -- 18. Poverty in the fields : legacy of the Bracero Program -- 19. Immigrant workers continue to build America -- pt. IV. The war on immigrants -- 20. Immigration policy as a means to control labor -- 21. The race and class construction of immigration restrictions -- 22. Constructing the "illegal" Mexican worker : racism and Mexican labor -- 23. Immigration double standards -- 24. Militarizing the border : death warrant for migrant workers -- 25. Inventing an invisible enemy : September 11 and the war on immigrants -- 26. The bipartisan segregationists of labor -- 27. The right wing calls the shots -- 28. Terrorists on the border : the Minutemen stalk their prey -- pt. V. Queremos un Mundo Sin Fronteras! -- 29. Human rights activists confront the far right -- 30. Unions and immigrant workers -- 31. Making borders history -- 32. A new civil rights movement. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780507203321 |
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| Chicago, Ill., : Haymarket Books, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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