The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field

ISBN-13: 9780252077074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 280 str.

Joseph M. Turrini

Opis

Discusses the revolutionary transformation of track and field. This book details the efforts of athletes to reorder labour relations in track and field and to end their decades-long power struggle with governing bodies. It shows how the athletes thoroughly transformed their sport to end the amateur system in the early 1990s.