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
McFarland, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
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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