Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990 (Shepperson Series in Nevada History)

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The growth of Las Vegas that started within the 1940s brought an influx of both men and women taking a look to work within the expanding hotel and casino industries. In truth, for the next fifty years the proportion of women within the labor force used to be greater in Las Vegas than the US as a whole. Joanne L. Goodwin’s study captures the shifting boundaries of women’s employment within the postwar decades with narratives drawn from the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. It counters clichéd pictures of women at work within the famed resort city as it explores women’s real strategies for economic survival and success.

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.

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