Keith Laybourn

The Football Pools and the British Working Class

A Political, Social and Cultural History

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780367701734
• ISBN-10: 0367701731
• Artikelnr.: 69923666

Autorenporträt

Keith Laybourn is Diamond Jubilee Professor Emeritus at the University of Huddersfield. His main research interests are labour history and gambling, and he is President of the Society for the Study of Labour History. He has recently published Going to the Dogs (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction and overview: debate and argument on working-class
leisure, gambling and the football pools / Chapter 2 The emergence of the
football pools c.1870-c. 1945: from bookmaker to the modern football pool
company / Chapter 3 The politics of the football pools 1918-1945: the
opposition of the chadbards, sabbatarians, the National Anti-Gambling
League, the Football League and the Football Association / Chapter 4 The
recovery, evolution and decline of the pools 1945-1990s / Chapter 5 The
politics of the pools since 1945: conflict and acceptance of 'the ranks of
high super-spivery' / Chapter 6 Employment, process and changing industrial
relations in the football companies 1945-1990s / Chapter 7 An integral part
of working-class life: was the pools worth 'the candle' in the culture of
working-class life / Chapter 8 Challenge, decline and the restructuring of
the pools: the impact of The National Lottery 'for good causes' / Chapter 9
Globalisation and the football pools / Chapter 10 Conclusion