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| #574101 in Books | 2016-04-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.10 x6.40 x9.40l,.0 | File Name: 0674660498 | 336 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| I thought the author did a really good job of covering the different perspectives and not trying ...|By Michael Battle|I was really surprised by how interesting this book was. I do a lot of work and reading about all the different angles of social and economic change as as town transitions from a Steel economy to a Casino one was fascinating. I thought the author did a really||As a case study of the steel industry’s decline and casino-based postindustrial economic development, From Steel to Slots offers up illuminating detail and storytelling. (Catherine Tumber In These Times 2016-04-04)
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was once synonymous with steel. But after the factories closed, the city bet its future on a new industry: casino gambling. On the site of the former Bethlehem Steel plant, thousands of flashing slot machines and digital bells replaced the fires in the blast furnaces and the shift change whistles of the industrial workplace. From Steel to Slots tells the story of a city struggling to make sense of the ways in which local jobs, landscap...
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