Playing Against the House

Playing Against the House
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781476778341
ISBN-13 : 1476778345
Rating : 4/5 (345 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Playing Against the House by : James D. Walsh

Download or read book Playing Against the House written by James D. Walsh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Salting is a simple concept: get hired at a non-union company, do the job you were hired to do, and, with the help of organizers on the outside, unionize your coworkers from the inside. James Walsh spent almost three years as a 'salt' in two casinos in South Florida, working as a buffet server and a bartender. Neither his employers at the casinos nor the union knew about Walsh's intentions to write about his experience. Now he reveals little-known truths about how unions fight to organize workers in the service industries, the vigorous corporate opposition [that can be] against them, and how workers are caught in the battle"--


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