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Record W3038698948 · doi:10.1353/llt.2020.0007

Casinos and Captive Labour Markets

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Alissa Mazar

Bibliographic record

VenueLabour / Le Travail · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicGambling Behavior and Treatments
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWindsorExploitBusinessWageRemunerationLoyaltyUnemploymentLabour economicsMarketingEconomicsEconomic growthFinance

Abstract

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Economically depressed communities across North America have opened casinos based on the promise of creating “good jobs.” Some scholars find that workers benefit from casinos via employment and wage growth, while others find that casinos exploit host communities, including their workers. Yet, little research addresses whom casinos employ and how workers experience the quality of employment. Existing research is based on geographic areas that house multiple casinos where workers have the mobility to move between different casino operators. Across North America, however, casinos are being adopted in economically depressed areas and in limited-licence states with large distances between casinos. Using the case study of Casino Windsor – located in Canada’s economically struggling automotive capital, Windsor, Ontario – this article speaks to whether casinos offer “good jobs” when a single casino exists in an economically struggling area. Based on 48 interviews with Windsor stakeholders and casino workers, media coverage, and descriptive statistics, these findings provide an alternative story of the employment implications of casino development when casino workers are immobile. The immobility of Casino Windsor workers results from a high unemployment rate, the absence of other employment offering comparable remuneration, and an international border. This scenario allows management to rule through disciplinary actions while still reaping the benefits of worker “loyalty” and effort. With states/provinces justifying casino developments to economically devitalized host communities by promising the creation of “good jobs,” researchers and policymakers must consider whether such developments will create and potentially exploit a captive labour supply, leading to the development of not-so-good casino jobs. Des communautés économiquement déprimées à travers l’Amérique du Nord ont ouvert des casinos basés sur la promesse de créer de «bons emplois». Certains chercheurs constatent que les travailleurs bénéficient des casinos par l’intermédiaire de la croissance de l’emploi et des salaires, tandis que d’autres trouvent que les casinos exploitent les communautés d’accueil, y compris leurs travailleurs. Pourtant, peu de recherches portent sur qui les casinos emploient et comment les travailleurs ressentent la qualité de l’emploi. Les recherches existantes sont basées sur des zones géographiques qui abritent plusieurs casinos où les travailleurs ont la mobilité nécessaire pour se déplacer entre différents opérateurs de casino. En Amérique du Nord, cependant, les casinos sont adoptés dans les zones économiquement défavorisées et dans les États à licence limitée avec de grandes distances entre les casinos. En utilisant l’étude de cas du Casino Windsor – situé dans la capitale automobile en difficulté économique du Canada, Windsor, Ontario – cet article examine si les casinos offrent de «bons emplois» lorsqu’un seul casino existe dans une région en difficulté économique. Sur la base de 48 entrevues avec des intervenants de Windsor et des travailleurs de casino, de la couverture médiatique et de statistiques descriptives, ces résultats fournissent une autre histoire des implications du développement du casino pour l’emploi lorsque les travailleurs de casino sont immobiles. L’immobilité des travailleurs de Casino Windsor résulte d’un taux de chômage élevé, de l’absence d’autres emplois offrant une rémunération comparable et d’une frontière internationale. Ce scénario permet à la direction de se prononcer par des mesures disciplinaires tout en récoltant les avantages de la «loyauté» et des efforts des travailleurs. Alors que les États ou les provinces justifient les développements de casinos aux communautés d’accueil économiquement dévitalisées en promettant la création de «bons emplois», les chercheurs et les responsables politiques doivent prendre en considération si de tels développements peuvent créer et exploiter potentiellement une offre de main-d’œuvre captive, conduisant au développement de moins bons emplois de casino.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.049
Threshold uncertainty score0.163

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.009
Scholarly communication0.0080.004
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0490.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.053
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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