Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940 to 1990

by Joanne L. Goodwin

Book Overview

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 labor 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874179602
• ISBN13: 9780874179606
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"