The labor of luck : casino capitalism in the United States and South Africa / Jeffrey J. Sallaz.

In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J. Sallaz goes behind the scenes of the global casino industry to investigate the radically different worlds of work and leisure he found in identically designed casinos in the United States and South Africa. Seamlessly weaving political and economic history wit...

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Main Author: Sallaz, Jeffrey J., 1974-
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Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-309) and index. 
588 |a Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. 
505 0 |a Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Part One: Behind the Tables; 1. Nevada: Learning to Deal; 2. Silver State Casino: Entrepreneurs at Work; 3. South Africa: Gambling with Empowerment; 4. Gold City Casino: Effacing Labor; Part Two: Beyond the Scenes; 5. The Politics of Producing Service; 6. Cut from the Same Cloth: Convergent Historical Origins; 7. The Birth of Regulation: States, Stigmata, and Symbolic Capital; 8. Of Dice and Men: Divergent Modes of Management; Conclusion: Casino Capitalism and Politico-Performativity. 
505 8 |a Methodological Appendix: Comparative Ethnography and Reflexive ScienceNotes; Bibliography; Index. 
520 |a In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J. Sallaz goes behind the scenes of the global casino industry to investigate the radically different worlds of work and leisure he found in identically designed casinos in the United States and South Africa. Seamlessly weaving political and economic history with his own personal experience, Sallaz provides a riveting account of two years spent working among both countries' casino dealers, pit bosses, and politicians. While the popular imagination sees the Nevada casino as a hedonistic world of consumption, The Labor of Luck shows that the "Vegas experienc. 
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