From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City

Bethlehem PA was synonymous with steel. But after the factories closed, the city bet its future on casino gambling. Chloe Taft describes a city struggling to make sense of the ways global capitalism transforms jobs, landscapes, and identities. While residents often have few cards to play, the shape economic progress takes is not inevitable.

• | Author: Chloe E. Taft
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: April 06, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674660498
• | ISBN-13: 9780674660496