American work-sports : a history of competitions for cornhuskers, lumberjacks, firemen and others

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American work-sports : a history of competitions for cornhuskers, lumberjacks, firemen and others

Frank Zarnowski ; foreword by Bil Gilbert

McFarland, c2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index

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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.

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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

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