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.
Discusses the revolutionary transformation of track and field. This book details the efforts of athletes to reorder labour relations in track and fiel...
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...
This unique sports and labor history charts the revolutionary transformation of track and field over the past thirty years. In this time, the sport...
