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Tables of Contents for The Grit Beneath the Glitter
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: The Many Faces of Las Vegas
Hal Rothman and Mike Davis
1
16
PART I IMAGE AND REALITY
Scripting Las Vegas: Noir Naifs, Junking Up, and the New Strip
Norman M. Klein
17
13
Las Vegas of the Mind: Shooting Movies in and about Nevada
Francisco Menendez
30
29
Discordant Infrastructure
Peter Goin
59
14
PART II NUTS AND BOLTS
Growth, Services, and the Political Economy of Gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000
Eugene Moehring
73
26
Lighting Las Vegas: Electricity and the City of Glitz
Jay Brigham
99
16
Build It and the Water Will Come
Jon Christensen
115
11
The Social Costs of Rapid Urbanization in Southern Nevada
Robert E. Parker
126
19
Rise to Power: The Recent History of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas
Courtney Alexander
145
31
Class Struggle in Oz
Mike Davis
176
11
PART III VOICES
``Squeezing the Juice Out of Las Vegas'': Reflections On Growing Up in Smalltown, USA
Brian Frehner
187
8
I Didn't Know Anybody Lived There
Shannon McMackin
195
13
How I Became a Native
William N. Thompson
208
16
Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers I
Kit Miller
224
19
PART IV SHAPING LIFE
``She Works Hard for Her Money'': A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1945-1985
Joanne L. Goodwin
243
17
The Racial Cauldron
Mike Davis
260
8
Inside Jean
Constance Devereaux
268
23
Looking into a Dry Lake: Uncovering the Women's View of Las Vegas
Amie Williams
291
16
PART V FROM PARIAH TO PARADIGM
Colony, Capital, and Casino: Money in the Real Las Vegas
Hal Rothman
307
28
Who Puts the ``Sin'' in ``Sin City'' Stories? Girls of Grit and Glitter in the City of Women
Kathryn Hausbeck
335
12
Nevada Goes Global: The Foreign Gaming Rule and the Spread of Casinos
William N. Thompson
347
16
Canto: Las Vegas
Richard Misrach
363
14
Contributors
377
2
Index
379
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