From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City

by Chloe E. Taft

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674660498
• ISBN13: 9780674660496
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"