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