Two middle age woman wrote a book about the decline of the boardwalk and Atlantic City casinos which makes an entertaining read. The book "Just One More Hand" written by professors Ellen Mutari and Deborah Figart gives a quick glimpse of Atlantic City as a gambling mecca attempted by east Coast big wigs trying desperately to recreate a Las Vegas out of exiguous part of ugly new Jersey.
This was done to try to replicate the success of gambling in transforming what was just disgusting unproductive barren land waste into what is Vegas today from enterprising developers. this book covers everything to the saturation and failures of this industry in Atlantic City to attempts of unionization of restaurant and casino workers naturally how casinos soon affected local exiguous government including the numerous tax breaks Krispy Kreme Chris Christie gave to the revel Entertainment group to open up this massive casino that drained money and eventually declared bankruptcy. In this book the two plump professors discuss how the casino industry has automated after promising so may jobs when opening up and the stressful conditions todays slashed casino workforce now face. They also discuss how the marketing of Atlantic City to luxury gamblers and yuppies away from the bread and butter old fogie tour bus players hit this area hard as people quit patronizing these casinos as they reached for few wealthy people and tourists who come into this region. these casinos trying to go all sexy with the waitresses and cater to a more upscale clientele in an area where few of them reside proved to be Atlantic City's killer strategy. this book looks at the workers and how they have constantly had to battle with the billionaire owners of casinos just for basic human dignities and worsening working conditions set forth by these bastards whose only goal is the almighty profit so they can keep shoving it into the political coffers of fat assholes like Chris Christie. 
The maintenance crew was totally cut after casinos got rid of coin-operated machines and so forth as the authors go through a monotony of details of the quick and sudden changes the casino industry has seen in the past two decades. Atlantic City is the Detroit of the gambling industry and with continued penetration of casinos throughout American society many more of these temples to money laundering hopefully closes operation.
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