Football Pools and the British Working Class

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

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• História inglesa e irlandesa
• História social e cultural
• Futebol
• Classes sociais
• Sociologia

leisure studies;gambling regulation;twentieth-century Britain;social mobility;anti-gambling movements;industrial relations history;working-class gambling culture analysis