The football pools and the British working class : a political, social and cultural history /: a political, social and cultural history. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Keith Laybourn.
• Authors: Laybourn, Keith
• Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction and overview: debate and argument on working-class leisure, gambling and the football pools ; Chapter 2 The emergence of the football pools c.1870-c. 1945: from bookmaker to the modern football pool company ; Chapter 3 The politics of the football pools 1918-1945: the opposition of the chadbards, sabbatarians, the National Anti-Gambling League, the Football League and the Football Association ; Chapter 4 The recovery, evolution and decline of the pools 1945-1990s ; Chapter 5 The politics of the pools since 1945: conflict and acceptance of ‘the ranks of high super-spivery’ ; Chapter 6 Employment, process and changing industrial relations in the football companies 1945-1990s ; Chapter 7 An integral part of working-class life: was the pools worth ‘the candle’ in the culture of working-class life ; Chapter 8 Challenge, decline and the restructuring of the pools: the impact of The National Lottery ‘for good causes’ ; Chapter 9 Globalisation and the football pools ; Chapter 10 Conclusion Bibliography
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.482; Soccer -- Betting -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Working class -- Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000623895; 9781000623802; 9781003144908
• Related ISBNs: 9780367701727
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