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

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

By Peter Kennedy, David Kennedy Copyright 2016
174 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction  1. The Commercialisation Of Football  2. Marxist Political Economy Of The Football Industry  3. Supporters Direct Europe: the "Recolonisation" of Football Fandom  4. Europe’s Stadium Revolution  5. Europe’s Ultra Football Supporters Movement  6. Grassroots Football, Autonomous Activity and the Forging of New Social Relationships  7. Concluding Thoughts

Biography

Peter Kennedy lectures in the Sociology of Sport and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. His most recent published work is in applying sociological theories to understanding health and medicine, and football supporter responses to commercialisation

David Kennedy is a freelance researcher. His most recent published work is in the area of football supporters and governance of professional football clubs

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