The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought an influx of both women and men looking to work in the expanding hotel and casino industries. In fact, for the next fifty years the proportion of women in the labor force was greater in Las Vegas than the United States as a whole. Joanne L. Goodwin s study captures the shifting boundaries of women s employment in the postwar decades with narratives drawn from the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. It counters clich d pictures of women at work in the famed resort city as it explores women s real strategies for economic survival and success.
Their experiences anticipated major trends in post\-World War II labor history: the.
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