Vegas at Odds

October 3, 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Sakamaki Hall A201

The History Workshop's fall series on "Capitalism in Crisis: Development, Sustainability, & Inequality in Global Perspective" will start with Professor James P. Kraft (UHM, History) speaking about his recent book, "Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960-1985."

His study explores the dynamics of the workforce -- the casino and hotel workers and their relations with the companies they work and occasionally strike against.

Along the way, the book traces the rise and changing fortunes of organized and unorganized labor as Las Vegas evolved from a small, somewhat seedy desert oasis into the glitzy tourist destination that it is today.


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(808) 956-7407, histwork@hawaii.edu

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