The Work of Professional Football: A Labour Of Love? - Couverture rigide

Roderick, Martin

 
9780415363723: The Work of Professional Football: A Labour Of Love?
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ISBN 10 : 0415363721 ISBN 13 : 9780415363723
Editeur : Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived.

A former professional, Martin Roderick's familiarity with the world of football is the foundation for this privileged research into a world that is typically closed to the public gaze and ignored by media reportage and academic research which prefers to focus on a small, unrepresentative group of elite players. Key themes explored within the text include:

  • the culture of work in professional football

  • the changing identity, orientation and expectations of players during their careers

  • the fragile and uncertain nature of professional sport careers

  • the performance and dramatic aspects of a career under public scrutiny

  • the role of relationships with managers, owners, support staff and partners

  • players' responses to the insecurities inherent in professional football such as injury, ageing, performance and transfer.

The text deals with a wide range of issues of interest to sports students and academics, particularly those with a focus on the sociology of sport but also including sport development, sport management and coaching studies. The text will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of careers, industrial relations and the sociology of work.

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À propos de l?auteur

Martin Roderick is Lecturer in Sociology at Durham University, UK and a former professional footballer.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415363721
ISBN 13 
9780415363723
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780415363730: The Work of Professional Football

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  041536373X ISBN 13 :  9780415363730
Editeur : Routledge, 2006
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