From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City

摘要

In From Steel to Slots, Chloe E. Taft offers a rich and engaging examination of the lived experience of the postindustrial city. Using Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as her case study, she joins archival research with ethnographic fieldwork and an examination of the built environment to unravel the complex transition from steel manufacturingto casino gambling, revealing the many consequent social, material, and economic changes that continue to shape the city today.