Description
Their experiences anticipated major trends in post-World War II labor history: the national migration of workers right through and after the war, the growing proportion of women within the labor force, balancing work with circle of relatives life, the unionization of service workers, and, above all, the desegregation of the labor force by sex and race. These narratives show women in Las Vegas resisting preassigned roles, seeing their work as a testimony of skill, a measure of independence, and a fulfillment of needs. Overall, these stories of women who lived and worked in Las Vegas within the last half of the twentieth century reveal much about the broader transitions for women in The us between 1940 and 1990.