American Work-Sports

A History of Competitions for Cornhuskers, Lumberjacks, Firemen and Others

Frank Zarnowski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2013
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-6784-6 (ISBN)

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For more than a century the American farm, factory and frontier provided opportunities for physical workers to display their skill, win a bet, brag or perhaps just have some fun. Competitions that emphasized useful skills, like plowing, corn-husking, rock drilling, typesetting, and tree cutting, were common in the antebellum and post-Civil War periods, often drawing large crowds and the attention of sporting journals.

For many years conventional American sports occurred in the workplace. This may help explain why the nicknames of so many prominent collegiate or professional sporting teams--Cornhuskers, Lumberjacks, Miners, Cowboys, Packers and Boilermakers--are also the occupations of 19th century worker-athletes.

By examining the American experience with competitions among workers, this book provides a new understanding of the interrelated nature of occupation and leisure.

Frank Zarnowski is a visiting professor of economics at Dartmouth College and was previously dean of the Graduate Program of Business at Mount St. Mary’s College, Maryland. He has been a television sports commentator since 1983 and was an NBC analyst for both the 1992 and 2004 Olympic Games.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Bil Gilbert

Preface

Introduction: The Emergence of American WorkSports

Part One: Worker Competitions in the 19th Century, 1840–1900

1. Rock Breaking and Other Early WorkSports

2. “Put Out That Fire”—Firemen’s Musters

3. Worker Games for Slaves

4. Setting Type, the Story of the Swifts

5. Circus Leapers

6. Ten Miles of Track in a Day

Part Two: Worker Competitions in the 20th Century, 1900–1940

7. Rodeo

8. Lumberjacks

9. Rock Drilling and Steel Drivin’ Men

10. Ofﬁce Games

11. Corn Husking and Other Agricultural Contests

Part Three: What Happened to Worker Competitions, 1940 to the Present

12. Obsolete Work-Sports

13. Modern WorkSports

14. WorkSports in Popular Culture

15. Why WorkSports?

Appendices

1—U.S. Workers in Common WorkSports Occupations, 1900

2—Sample Muster News Account

3—Numbers of U.S. WorkSports Athletes, 2010

4—U.S. Occupational Sports, 2010

5—Wall Street Journal Front Page WorkSports Stories, 1995–2005

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.10.2013
Zusatzinfo	47 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	336 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7864-6784-3 / 0786467843
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-6784-6 / 9780786467846
Zustand	Neuware