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... gloomy picture, casino workers in Las Vegas have provided a striking counter-example. Since 1989, over 30,000 of them have joined the Culinary Union (HERE Local 226), more than doubling the union’s membership and bringing union density on the famous Las Vegas Strip to 90%. What accounts for their success...

... addressing the needs of the masses by building schools, opening access to credit, liberalizing the civil service and so on, approximately three years into its first term (five years) the PLP rulers started carrying out shady deals with foreign investors and casino operators, made the civil service...

...Stephen Pimpare Peter H. Stone , Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington , New York : Ferrar, Straus and Giroux , 2006 , 224 pp. Casino Jack and the United States of Money , Alex Gibney , director, 2010 Casino Jack...

... to the future) is itself mediated by financial markets" is a significant formulation of what is at stake in the circulation of power/knowledge today (p. 24). Ascher's meditation on the race track betting of his grandfather and his subsequent decision to think finance in those terms rather than as a casino...

...) conceal the possibility of alliances with these losers at America's capitalist casino. @NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 301 Notes on contributor Cyrus Ernesto ("Ernie") Zirakzadeh writes on comparative social movements, on political theory and popular art, and on experiments with participatory and "small-d...

... of the Sinha la-Buddhist island nation-state. Stephen P. Hanna and Vincent J. Del Casino suggest that "the link between cartography and colonialism provides a path toward understanding the complex interrelationships between the tourism map and identity. After all, as a part of the colonial project, cartography...

... to the banks but increased risk to the system of financial panic and collapse28 This casino view of finance common in IPE scholarship presents actors as risk-takers eager to jeopardize stability for profit. Unlike neoclassical finance theory, which blindly treats financial markets as efficient and views actors...

... of contemporary, "casino" capitalism could be seen as early as 2002 during the Enron corporate scandal, mainstream commentators generally failed to perceive them. Only with the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the failure of Lehman Brothers did it again become "common sense"-not least in the US Treasury...

... task of uniting workers into unions and restoring the American Dream13 To date, its efforts have had no substantial impact on overall national union density, despite affiliated unions' important successes in campaigns such as Justice for Janitors, home-care workers, hotel and casino employees...

... at a casino where he intends to buy a stolen weapon from Klaue. T'Challa is also pursuing Klaue, accompanied by his ex-girlfriend Nakia, a War Dog, and General Okoye, leader of the Dora Milaje (all-female royal guard). They are hoping to extradite Klaue to Wakanda because many years earlier he had invaded...

... between indigenous sovereignty and "colonial time" at the turn of the 21st century. Bruyneel recounts the ways in which Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory in the 2003 California recall reflected a conscious effort to define him as an outsider coming to rescue the state from casino-owning tribes who were...

...: University of Illinois Press, 1964); Eve Darian-Smith, New Capitalists: Issues of Law, Politics and Identity Surrounding Casino Gaming on Native American Land (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2003). 17 Michael McCann, Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (Chicago...

... been no public accounting. WELSA funds were also apparently used to build a $10 million casino in nearby Mahnomen (Camp Justice 1991a; Asp 1985). A number of attempts were made to remove Wadena from office. These included a series of elections. No attempt will be made to relate the entire tangled tale...

... European Market on the Spatial Structure of The Federal Republic of Germany" in Planning Practice & Research 6 (1) 1991. 11 See Susan Strange Casino Capitalism (Basil Blackwell, New York, 1986). "When it comes to the world's monetary and financial structure, people are often tempted to write about economic...

... indigenous groups. They're divided economically, and they're divided around "Should we allow oil exploration?" They're divided around having casinos, so I think it's really important that we do not fetishize and romanticize a particular version of indigenous politics as necessarily fully grounded...

..., the wars in Iraq, economies devoid of labor and human rights. A world champion lobbyist involved in projects like Indian Casinos and the corporate-driven Channel One for high schools, Abramoff emerged as the "field marshall" of the DC wingers-someone who could block legislation, get bills passed...

... terrorists in the opulent casinos of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam, and Mexico. Medal of Honor: Warfighter takes players to places such as Pakistan, Somalia, the Philippines, Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Yemen. These games therefore manifest terrorism as a truly global threat that is unconstrained...

..., it also produces suboptimal college educations in substandard classroom performance by subverted researchers struggling to hit the big-time in the casino capitalism of collegiate careerism. The Discipline of Reputational Development The organization of a national political science association in the APSA...

... solidarity he deems necessary to construct an effective political movement. In the second half of the book, Schwartz focuses on political economy. He presents a thorough review of how contemporary"casino capitalism," the rise of corporate power especially within the FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate...

...% blowback against corporate capitalists, large banks, rich financial professionals, by people who are not rich, who cannot play the game. This conflict echoes Lasch's analysis in the 1990s.12 They have been victimized by the casino capitalism that has gone on during "the bubble economy" with the housing...