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Football in Neo-Liberal Times: A Marxist Perspective on the European Football Industry

Football in Neo-Liberal Times: A Marxist Perspective on the European Football Industry

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Sports GeneralSoccer

ISBN10: 1138826510
ISBN13: 9781138826519
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 17 2016
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book offers an original Marxist critique of the European football business. It argues that the Marxist account of the difference between profits and surplus value is crucial to an understanding of the fluid and contradictory nature of the commodification of football. Section one analyses the nature of modern professional football and section two highlights attempts, via government agency and football clubs, to corral fans into ever greater identification with business logic aimed at breaking traditional social relations. Section three draws on a number of cases studies across Europe, to analyse how some fans are attempting to mount a counter ideological response to the assault of neo-liberalism on the game.

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