Are Elite Athletes Exploited?

Murphy, Patrick; Waddington, Ivan

doi:10.1080/17430430601147096

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“…Although the prize money available in professional sport has increased significantly over the recent past, the reality is that such riches are available to only a small minority even within professional sport, and for most sport professionals, the money available is, in fact, relatively low (Frank & Cook, 2010;Murphy & Waddington, 2007). The results from this study indicate a very similar level of earning inequality exists across the broad spectrum of professional golf.…”

Section: Gambling On the 'Big Win': Stress Over Pay And Conditions Insupporting

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‘Life in the Travelling Circus’: A Study of Loneliness, Work Stress, and Money Issues in Touring Professional Golf

Fry

Bloyce

2017

Sociology of Sport Journal

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This article examines the effects of globalization on the well-being of migrant professional athletes. Interviews with 20 touring professional golfers reveal that players experience many of the personal problems -such as loneliness, isolation, low decision latitude, low social support, and effort-reward imbalance -which have been identified as "strong predictors of mental ill-health" (Leka & Jain, 2010, p. 65). Feelings of loneliness and isolation developed as players were regularly apart from family and friends, and spent most of their time with other golfers whom they had somewhat superficial relationships with. These feelings coupled with, for many, uncertain income generated through golf added further to their work-related anxieties. Overall, results highlight the importance of considering how workplace anxieties and vulnerabilities impact on athlete migrants' health and well-being.

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Section: Gambling On the 'Big Win': Stress Over Pay And Conditions Insupporting

confidence: 64%

‘Life in the Travelling Circus’: A Study of Loneliness, Work Stress, and Money Issues in Touring Professional Golf

Fry

Bloyce

2017

Sociology of Sport Journal

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“…Lying at the heart of all these empirical studies -in various shades of self-comprehension -is the recognition that exploitation is a fact of existence (Murphy and Waddington, 2007). Even 6 so, as part of the language of accommodating their expendability, Wacquant (2001: 186) claims that individual adaptation to the realities of corporeal manipulation is essential for boxers to reclaim a sense of personal integrity; an important agentic step in terms of the way in which they 'take responsibility' for their selves and lives.…”

Section: Identity Issues For Sports Workersmentioning

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From identification to dis-identification: case studies of job loss in professional football

Roderick

2013

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractTaken from a broader study of the careers of professional footballers, this article uses two player stories of job loss to offer contrasting experiences of cynical dis-identification. I examine how in research on the careers of sports workers athletes so often express discontent yet maintain an apparent dedication and commitment to their craft. In contrast to the overwhelming focus on the construction and shaping of workplace identity, this article introduces the notion of dis-identification to explain how athletes resist coach/managerial domination in an occupation in which high commitment is assumed by expressing cynical and instrumental attitudes to their jobs: cynical athletes dis-identify with dominant cultural prescriptions so as to distance themselves from ideological rhetoric, a process in which subjectivities are 'externalised'. Although cynical athletes may feel like autonomous agents, nevertheless they still perform managerial norms and rituals.

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“…Such attitudes towards pain and injury are not confined to football or to England for, as a growing number of studies have made clear, they are characteristic of elite sport in general in many countries (23,25,26). As Young, White and McTeer (27) have noted:…”

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“…Examples of athletes who have continued to compete with painful and potentially serious injuries are almost innumerable (23). One study of English professional football found that "playing with pain, or when injured, is a central aspect of the culture of professional football" and that players "learn from a young age to "normalise" pain and to accept playing with pain and injury as part and parcel of the life of a professional footballer" (24) (p. 172).…”

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Sport, health and drugs: a critical re-examination of some key issues and problems

Hanstad

Waddington

2009

Perspect Public Health

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One of the major justifications for the ban on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport has been that relating to the protection of the health of athletes. This paper subjects this argument to critical analysis by locating it in the context of the broader relationship between sport and health. More particularly, the paper seeks to unravel some of the complexities of this relationship by an examination of (i) some aspects of sports sponsorship, particularly with alcohol and tobacco companies; (ii) the health risks associated with elite level sport, and (iii) the widespread and legal use within the sporting context of drugs which can have dangerous side effects. The paper concludes with an examination of some aspects of anti-doping policies within sport and it is suggested that a more imaginative approach to athlete education is needed to prevent the misuse of drugs.

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Are Elite Athletes Exploited?

Cited by 38 publications

References 23 publications

‘Life in the Travelling Circus’: A Study of Loneliness, Work Stress, and Money Issues in Touring Professional Golf

‘Life in the Travelling Circus’: A Study of Loneliness, Work Stress, and Money Issues in Touring Professional Golf

From identification to dis-identification: case studies of job loss in professional football

Sport, health and drugs: a critical re-examination of some key issues and problems

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