End of amateurism in american track and field, the
Auteur :
Turrini, Joseph M.
Éditeur :
University of Illinois Press
ISBN :
9780252077074
Date de publication :
13 mai 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
426 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.