

Sport and Society The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field, (Hardcover)
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- Sport and Society The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field, (Hardcover)
- Author: University of Illinois Press
- ISBN: 9780252035159
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 2010-06-01
- Page Count: 280
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- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreSports & Racing
- Publication dateMay, 2010
- Pages280
- Series titleSport and Society
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This unique sports and labor history charts the revolutionary transformation of track and field over the past thirty years. In this time, the sport has changed from an amateur effort whose governing bodies unfairly controlled its athletes' lives to a professional arena in which athletes have the power to make decisions in their own best interests. While historians have chronicled labor history in team sports such as baseball and football or have lumped track and field into larger studies of Olympic history, Joseph M. Turrini is the first to scrupulously detail the efforts of athletes to reorder labor relations in track and field and to end their decades-long power struggle with governing bodies.
Combining social and institutional history and incorporating the recollections of the athletes and meet directors on the front lines, The End of Amateurism in Track and Field shows how the athletes thoroughly transformed their sport to end the amateur system in the early 1990s--changes that allowed the athletes to market their potential, drastically increase their earning possibilities, and improve their quality of life.
This book reveals how athletes in the 1950s began to harness the courts, legislature, and little-known underground labor relations systems that grew within the sport to untangle the distribution of power and decision-making by the 1990s. Enlivening the narrative with stories such as runner Wes Santee's battle with the Amateur Athletic Union and revelations about the actions of college coaches and rivalries between the NCAA and AAU, Turrini examines the effects of amateurism on athletes and explores how changes in the economic context of track and field and the role of the government helped leverage the end of the 100-year era of amateur track and field.
- Sport and Society The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field, (Hardcover)
- Author: University of Illinois Press
- ISBN: 9780252035159
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 2010-06-01
- Page Count: 280
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