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Author | : Chloe E. Taft |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674970241 |
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, landscapes, and identities are transformed by global capitalism. Postindustrial redevelopment often makes a clean break with a city’s rusted past. In Bethlehem, where the new casino is industrial-themed, the city’s heritage continues to dominate the built environment and infuse everyday experiences. Through the voices of steelworkers, casino dealers, preservationists, immigrants, and executives, Chloe Taft examines the ongoing legacies of corporate presence and urban development in a small city—and their uneven effects. Today, multinational casino corporations increasingly act as urban planners, promising jobs and new tax revenues to ailing communities. Yet in an industry premised on risk and capital liquidity, short-term gains do not necessarily mean long-term commitments to local needs. While residents often have few cards to play in the face of global capital and private development, Taft argues that the shape economic progress takes is not inevitable, nor must it always look forward. Memories of corporations’ accountability to communities persist, and citizens see alternatives for more equitable futures in the layered landscapes all around them.
Author | : Chloe E. Taft |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0674660498 |
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.
Author | : Chloe Elizabeth Taft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 2014 |
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Author | : Michael Woodsworth |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2016-06-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0674545060 |
In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2013-02-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781482626292 |
Old San Francisco, which is the San Francisco of only the other day, the day before the Earthquake, was divided midway by the Slot. The Slot was an iron crack that ran along the centre of Market Street, and from the Slot arose the burr of the ceaseless, endless cable that was hitched at will to the cars it dragged up and down. In truth, there were two slots, but in the quick grammar of the West time was saved by calling them, and much more that they stood for, “The Slot.” North of the Slot were the theatres, hotels, and shopping district, the banks and the staid, respectable business houses. South of the Slot were the factories, slums, laundries, machine-shops, boiler works, and the abodes of the working class.
Author | : Mark Miodownik |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0544236041 |
An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, from concrete and steel to denim and chocolate, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science.
Author | : Gary B. Nash |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780674309333 |
This book is the first to trace the fortunes of the earliest large free black community in the U.S. Nash shows how black Philadelphians struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children, and train leaders who would help abolish slavery.
Author | : Robert D. Schamberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Gamma rays |
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Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781921722349 |
"This easy-to-use pocket book contains a wealth of up-to-date, useful, practical and hard-to- find information. With 160 matt laminated, greaseproof pages you'll enjoy glare-free reading and durability. Includes: data sheets, formulae, reference tables and equivalent charts. New content in the 3rd edition includes; Reamer and Drill Bit Types, Taper Pins, T-slot sizing, Counterboring/Sinking, Extended Angles Conversions for Cutting Tapers, Keyways and Keyseats, Woodruff Keys, Retaining Rings, 0-Rings, Flange Sizing, Common Workshop Metals, Adhesives, GD&T, Graph and Design Paper included at the back of the book. Engineers Black Book contains a wealth of up-to-date, useful, information within over 160 matt laminated grease proof pages. It is ideal for engineers, trades people, apprentices, machine shops, tool rooms and technical colleges." -- publisher website.
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Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Automobile industry and trade |
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