Pay up and Play the Game Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914

Name: Pay up and Play the Game Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914
Price: 58.02 USD
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ISBN: 9780521892308

ISBN-10: 0521892309

ISBN-13: 9780521892308

Edition: 2002

Authors: Wray Vamplew

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Based on a survey of club and association records, Pay up and Play the Game is a systematic economic, social and cultural analysis of the emergence of mass spectator sport during the years prior to World War One.

Book details

List price: $58.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English




Is money the root of all evil? A historical appreciation of commercialisation in sports



Comments on the state of play: economic historians and sports history<l>l</l><l>Part II</l>



Popular recreation before the industrial revolution



Sporting activities and economic change, 1750-1830



The precursors of commercialised sport, 1830-75



The rise of professional gate-money sport, 1875-1914



From sports spectator to sports consumer<l>l</l><l>Part III</l>



Profits or premierships?



All for one and one for all



Paying the piper: shareholders and directors



Winning at any cost?<l>l</l><l>Part IV</l>



The struggle for recognition



Earnings and opportunities



Close of play



Not playing the game: unionism and strikes



Labour aristocrats or wage slaves?<l>l</l><l>Part V</l>



Ungentlemany conduct



The madding crowd<l>l</l><l>Part VI</l>



An industrial revolution in sport






Shareholders and shareholdings in Scottish and English sport



Regulations defining amateurism and professionalism in British sports