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Staudohar, Paul D.

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Souvenir Press Ltd.

Twenty-three original essays by leading labor scholars, including George Schultz, John Kenneth Galbraith, Jack Barbash, Robert Solow, others. Edited by Clark Kerr. Surveys the course of labor economics over more than two centuries since Adam Smith.

Labor Economic and Industrial Relations: Markets and Institutions (WERTHEIM PUBLICATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS)

Business & Money

Kerr, Clark

Economics

Harvard University Wertheim Committee

Playing for Dollars: Labor Relations and the Sports Business (Cornell Paperbacks)

Fans of professional sports have been forced to pay attention to labor relations in the last five years. The 1994―1995 season reminded baseball enthusiasts that a player's strike can mean something more than a swing and a miss, and the fans of other sports have experienced similar frustrations. In Playing for Dollars, Paul D. Staudohar analyzes the business dimension of sports with a timely assessment of the interactions among labor, management, and government in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Author of The Sports Industry and Collective Bargaining, an earlier version of the current volume, Staudohar describes the mechanics of contract and salary negotiations, including the pivotal issue of free agency. He explains how unions became established in sports, how the balance of power shifted between owners and players, and how the salaries of stars escalated. He investigates the gambling controversies and changing drug policies that have sometimes alienated fans and comments, as well, on the impact AIDS has had on professional sports. Sports events are media events and Staudohar takes a look at the effects of television contracts and international expansion. He also considers the future of team sports, discussing league expansion, prospects for growth, and the issue of franchise relocation.

Sports & Outdoors

ILR PRESS

Fans of professional sports have been forced to pay attention to labor relations in the last five years. The 1994―1995 season reminded baseball enthusiasts that a player's strike can mean something more than a swing and a miss, and the fans of other sports have experienced similar frustrations. In Playing for Dollars, Paul D. Staudohar analyzes the business dimension of sports with a timely assessment of the interactions among labor, management, and government in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Author of The Sports Industry and Collective Bargaining, an earlier version of the current volume, Staudohar describes the mechanics of contract and salary negotiations, including the pivotal issue of free agency. He explains how unions became established in sports, how the balance of power shifted between owners and players, and how the salaries of stars escalated. He investigates the gambling controversies and changing drug policies that have sometimes alienated fans and comments, as well, on the impact AIDS has had on professional sports. Sports events are media events and Staudohar takes a look at the effects of television contracts and international expansion. He also considers the future of team sports, discussing league expansion, prospects for growth, and the issue of franchise relocation.

For all the billions of dollars the sports industry generates, its labor laws and negotiations are still relatively new, and their impact is only beginning to be felt. Labor Relations in Professional Sports offers a step-by-step examination of how these new management-player relationships have come about and what they may portend for the future. In an engaging style that is rich in sports history and anecdotes, the authors examine the background of the major team sports--baseball, football, basketball, and hockey--and analyze how business and legal considerations have affected each sport's development. They also probe current unresolved issues and predictable future problems, such as the relationships of broadcast networks and sports leagues. Surprisingly, this book with so formidable a title is not only readable but even difficult to put down. Explanations of complex legal decisions are reduced to brief, lucid passages. Extensive footnotes are provided in each chapter for readers who wish greater detail. 
Choice 
. . . a comprehensive treatment of labor relations in sports. . . . Overall, the book is a slam-dunk success. 
Journal of Law and Commerce

Labor Relations in Professional Sports:

Gould, William B.

Berry, Robert C.

Praeger

``In this book of readings, two industrial relations experts provide a broad and detailed view of employer-employee relationships. The ninety-plus papers selected examine the meaning of work and the changing nature of the work force, job satisfaction, worker participation in management, collective bargaining systems, and industrial conflict, unions and politics, and the future of industrial relations.... These readings are very informative and present a much wider range of views than is normally found in such books.''

Industrial Relations in a New Age: Economic, Social, and Managerial Perspectives (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Jossey-Bass

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