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Unpaid Professionals

Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports

by Andrew Zimbalist

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Published by Princeton University Press .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Higher & further education,
  • Sport & leisure industries,
  • Sports & Recreation,
  • Sports,
  • USA,
  • General,
  • Philosophy & Social Aspects,
  • Economics,
  • Education,
  • Political Science and International Relations,
  • Sports & Recreation / General

  • The Physical Object
    FormatPaperback
    Number of Pages280
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL7757955M
    ISBN 100691086907
    ISBN 109780691086903

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    The book is readable, solidly researched, and adds great clarity to a muddy debate."--Jon Morgan, The Baltimore Sun "With Unpaid Professionals, sports economist Zimbalist adds significantly to a growing literature from researchers and practitioners on big-time college athletics. The Professionals is a timely novel taking place within a context which had me drawing comparisons to the Occupy Wall Street movement which swept up North America in the last year. The reader is introduced to four white, middle class, under-employed college graduates who dream up the perfect money-making scheme in a scarce job market: kidnapping/5.

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Big-time college sports embodies the ideals of amateurism and provides an important complement to university education. Or so its apologists would have us believe. As Andrew Zimbalist shows in this unprecedented analysis, college sports is really a massively commercialized industry based on activities that are often irrelevant and even harmful to education.

Zimbalist combines groundbreaking. Unpaid Professionals is Zimbalist's masterful summing up of the history of college sports, its present predicament, and its uncertain prospects. If every American interested in this subject read this book, real reform would come to big-time college sports."―Murray Sperber, author of Onward to Victory: The Crises That Shaped College SportsCited by: China.

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If every American interested in this subject read this book, real reform would come to big-time college sports. — Murray Sperber, author of "Onward to Victory: The Crises That Shaped College Sports"5/5(1). On page one of the –98 NCAA Manual the basic purpose of the National Collegiate Athletic Association is written: “to maintain intercollegiate athletics as an integral part of the educational program and the athlete as an integral part of the student body and, by doing so, retain a clear line of demarcation between intercollegiate athletics and professional sports.”.

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As Andrew Zimbalist shows in this unprecedented analysis, college sports is really a massively commercialized industry based on activities that are often irrelevant and even harmful to education. There’s strong support in the book for a laissez-faire approach whereby college sports would be told, “You survive only as long as you can pay your own way,” but Zimbalist’s recommendations are rather pallid ones, decidedly not of the Gordian Knot-cutting type.

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Zimbalist, Author Princeton University Press $65 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. Get this from a library. Unpaid professionals: commercialism and conflict in big-time college sports. [Andrew S Zimbalist] -- Publisher Fact Sheet This book suggests that American college sports is a massively commercialized industry based on activities that are often irrelevant & even harmful to.

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It is worth reading even if you are not a sports fan; it may spoil some of the fun if you are.