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Informationen zum Autor Frank Zarnowski is a visiting professor of economics at Dartmouth College and was previously dean of the Graduate Program of Business at Mount St. Mary's College, Maryland. He has been a television sports commentator since 1983 and was an NBC analyst for both the 1992 and 2004 Olympic Games. Klappentext For more than a century the American farm, factory and frontier provided opportunities for physical workers to display their skill, win a bet, brag or perhaps just have some fun. Competitions that emphasized useful skills, like plowing, corn-husking, rock drilling, typesetting, and tree cutting, were common in the antebellum and post-Civil War periods, often drawing large crowds and the attention of sporting journals. For many years conventional American sports occurred in the workplace. This may help explain why the nicknames of so many prominent collegiate or professional sporting teams--Cornhuskers, Lumberjacks, Miners, Cowboys, Packers and Boilermakers--are also the occupations of 19th century worker-athletes. By examining the American experience with competitions among workers, this book provides a new understanding of the interrelated nature of occupation and leisure. Zusammenfassung " For more than a century the American farm! factory and frontier provided opportunities for physical workers to display their skill! win a bet! brag or perhaps just have some fun. By examining the American experience with worker competitions! this book provides a new understanding of the interrelated nature of occupation and leisure. "-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsForeword by Bil GilbertPrefaceIntroduction: The Emergence of American WorkSportsPart One: Worker Competitions in the 19th Century, 1840-19001.¿Rock Breaking and Other Early WorkSports2.¿"Put Out That Fire"-Firemen's Musters3.¿Worker Games for Slaves4.¿Setting Type, the Story of the Swifts5.¿Circus Leapers6.¿Ten Miles of Track in a DayPart Two: Worker Competitions in the 20th Century, 1900-19407.¿Rodeo8.¿Lumberjacks9.¿Rock Drilling and Steel Drivin' Men10.¿Of¿ce Games11.¿Corn Husking and Other Agricultural ContestsPart Three: What Happened to Worker Competitions, 1940 to the Present12.¿Obsolete Work-Sports13.¿Modern WorkSports14.¿WorkSports in Popular Culture15.¿Why WorkSports?Appendices1-U.S. Workers in Common WorkSports Occupations, 19002-Sample Muster News Account3-Numbers of U.S. WorkSports Athletes, 20104-U.S. Occupational Sports, 20105-Wall Street Journal Front Page WorkSports Stories, 1995-2005Chapter NotesBibliographyIndex...
