Play'ing College Football
Campus Athletic Worker Experiences of Exploitation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2371090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathan Kalman-Lamb (0000-0002-3269-4073, University of New Brunswick, corresponding author), Derek Silva (0000-0003-3446-931X, King’s University College) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 863-882 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08969205231208036 |
| OpenAlex | W4388021888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 32 |
It is well-established in the literature on the economic dimensions of US college sport that it has become a site of professionalized, value-producing work that does not equitably compensate the campus athletic workers responsible for the production of value therein. Yet, while these interventions make highly compelling political economic claims, few focus on how college athletes themselves experience the system and thus the exploitation they might endure. Drawing on testimony from semi-structured interviews conducted with 25 former college football players, we aim to expand discussions of exploitation beyond debates over compensation through our analysis of the contrast between 'work' and 'play' that exists in the lives of campus athletic workers. Utilizing a non-deterministic Marxian theory of exploitation, this paper explicitly interrogates the way capitalist ideology permeates college football by centering the important tension between 'work' and 'play' that contributes to that ideology as experienced and understood by college football players
Athletes · Football · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · American Sports and Literature · Engineering · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |