Martin Roderick

The Work of Professional Football

A Labour of Love?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious careers and ordinary working culture of professional footballers, away from the unreal and short-lived glamour of the media glare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 158mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780415363730
• ISBN-10: 041536373X
• Artikelnr.: 20989987

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Professional football in context 2 Attitudes to work in
professional football 3 Uncertainty and football injuries 4 Injuries,
stigma and social identity 5 Transferring and the transformation of self 6
Transfer markets and informal grapevines 7 Control and the process of
transferring 8 The fate of idealism in professional football