Men at Play: A Working Understanding of Professional Hockey - Hardcover

Robidoux, Michael A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773521690 ISBN 13: 9780773521698

Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Players dedicate their lives to the goal of playing professional hockey and teams demand total commitment from their players, giving them complete control over almost all aspects of the players' lives. With the enormous labour turnover in the AHL and the surplus labour pool, players are extremely vulnerable: they must perform well or be replaced by the scores of other men willing to do the same job. With limited education and limited life skills, players seldom meet people who are not connected to the game and, when they do, they do so with trepidation. The constructed universe of the game consumes the players so that, in spite of any wealth they may accumulate, they often know nothing other than the game and have invested everything in an occupation where their services quickly become obsolete. Far from the sensational memoirs of those few players who make it to the top, Robidoux's Men at Play offers a bracing inside look at the dynamics of the fastest game on earth.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0773521690
• ISBN 13: 9780773521698
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
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