Transformations in Casino Gaming and the Unionization of Atlantic City's Dealers

Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart
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Ellen Mutari: Department of Economics, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ 08240-0195, ellen.mutari@stockton.edu
Deborah M. Figart: School of Graduate and Continuing Studies, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ 08240-0195, deb.figart@stockton.edu

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2008, vol. 40, issue 3, 258-265

Abstract: This account of a successful unionization campaign among dealers is based on an ethnographic study-in-progress of workers in Atlantic City's eleven casinos. Deteriorating working conditions that reflect broader political economic trends have contributed to a shift in employees' attitudes toward their jobs, their employers, and consequently unions. Unions became “insiders,†as casino management is increasingly viewed as “outsiders.†This case study is indicative of organized labor's ability to unionize in the twenty-first-century service economy.

Keywords: casinos; unionization; service work; job quality; management strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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