TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taft,Chloe E.
TI  - From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City 
SN  - 9780674970229
U1  - 338.4/77950974822 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Casinos
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Bethlehem
KW  - Globalization
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Grand Openings and Closings --; 1. Order in the Landscape --; 2. Christmas City and Sin City Simply Do Not Go Together --; 3. The Postindustrial Factory --; 4. A Steel Site in Limbo --; 5. Landscapes of Life and Loss --; 6. What Happens in Bethlehem Depends on Macau --; Conclusion: Postindustrial Planning and Possibility --; Appendix: Note on Methods --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674970229
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674970229
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674970229/original
ER  -