Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, provides an apt case study for considering the consequences of advanced globalization on the “forgotten men and women” of the twenty-first century.  Ruminating on The Principles of Scientific Management, a formative model for industrial productivity that Frederick Taylor developed while a consultant at Bethlehem Steel, Walker Evans’s candid depictions of Bethlehem’s white working class during a time of grave economic hardship, and Bill Friedman’s groundbreaking trade volume Casino Management (in which the author likens slot-machines to mousetraps), my words and pictures trace a sequence of developments that led Bethlehem from jackpot to privation.