Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914.

Abstract

Part I. An Overview: 1. Is money the root of all evil? A historical appreciation of commercialisation in sports 2. Comments on the state of play: economic historians and sports history Part II. The Development of Professional Gate-Money Sport: 3. Popular recreation before the industrial revolution 4. Sporting activities and economic change, 1750-1830 5. The precursors of commercialised sport, 1830-75 6. The rise of professional gate-money sport, 1875-1914 7. From sports spectator to sports consumer Part III. Sport in the Market Place: The Economics of Professional Sport: 8. Profits or premierships? 9. All for one and one for all 10. Paying the piper: shareholders and directors 11. Winning at any cost? Part IV. Playing for Pay: Professional Sport as an Occupation: 12. The struggle for recognition 13. Earnings and opportunities 14. Close of play 15. Not playing the game: unionism and strikes 16. Labour aristocrats or wage slaves? Part V. Unsporting Behaviour: 17. Ungentlemany conduct 18. The madding crowd Part VI. A Second Overview: 19. An industrial revolution in sport Appendices: 1. Shareholders and shareholdings in Scottish and English sport 2. Regulations defining amateurism and professionalism in British sports.