The whole week comes down to the team sheet
A Footballer's View of Insecure Work
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2374152 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Martin Roderick (0000-0001-9846-9752, Durham University, autor correspondente), James Schumacker (Retired Professional Footballer) |
| Ano | 2017 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 166-174 |
| Data de publicação | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0950017016672792 |
| OpenAlex | W2560804469 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 22 |
| Referências citadas | 11 |
This 'On the front line' article focuses on the work and employment situation for an insecure, individualized sports worker whose main job task is fundamentally and publically collaborative. The narrative offers a realistic and nuanced understanding of the material conditions of work for a journeyman footballer and defies sociological ideas associated with attachment and identification to work, which are frequently and implicitly connected to this profession. So while physical and skilful dimensions are commonly foregrounded, the testimony of (now retired) professional footballer James Schumacker lays bare not only the uncertainties and instability of this job, but also specifically the constant tension between securing fixed-term employment and being selected for first team games: making the 'team sheet
Art · Economics · Front line · Management · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Task (project management · Work (physics · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Mechanical Engineering
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| Obras citantes distintas | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 2,75 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 22 |