End of Amateurism in American Track and Field

Klappentext Joseph M. Turrini is an assistant professor of library and information science at Wayne State University. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph M. Turrini
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.2010
• EAN: 9780252077074
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07707-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Sport and Society; Sport and Society
• Subject: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history