A01=Jeff Sallaz
africa
american casinos
Author_Jeff Sallaz
business
business and industry
capitalism
casino capitalism
casino dealers
casino industry
casino management
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Category=JHMC
Category=KNS
comparative ethnography
consumerism
economic history
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eq_non-fiction
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ethnography
global casino
gold city casino
labor studies
las vegas
neoliberalism
north america
pit bosses
political history
postcolonialism
power and wealth
regulated labor
regulations
silver state casino
sociology
south africa
south african casinos
united states of america
vegas experience
work and labor
Product details
- ISBN 9780520259492
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 experience' is made possible only through a variety of systems regulating labor, capital, and consumers, and that because of these complex dynamics, the Vegas casino cannot be seamlessly picked up and replicated elsewhere. Sallaz's fresh and path-breaking approach reveals how neo-liberal versus post-colonial forms of governance produce divergent worlds at the tables, and how politics, profits, and pleasure have come together to shape everyday life in the new economy.
Jeffrey J. Sallaz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona.
