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Men at Play : A Working Understanding of Professional Hockey, Hardcover by Ro...
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- ISBN
- 9780773521698
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Men at Play: a Working Understanding of Professional Hockey
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Genre
- Sports
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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After a year spent documenting the working life and daily routines of players for an American Hockey League team, Michael Robidoux found that most peoples' perceptions of hockey players' lives as romantic and glamorized are unrealistic. The majority of professional hockey players work in a closed and discriminatory environment in the lower tiers of hockey on semi-professional teams. 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.
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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9780773521698
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Book Title
Men at Play: a Working Understanding of Professional Hockey
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Genre
Sports
Number of Pages
232 Pages
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Gender Issues
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Canada
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