Abstract
Academic interest in the relationship between sport and work was sparked by Bero Rigauer's (1980) Sport and Work, in which he argued that the pressure exerted upon athletes for faster, higher and stronger performances had caused their dehumanisation, inevitably transforming them into the tool of a tightly ordered social system and corrupting the purpose and function of sport. The regulation of an athlete's 'work' has increased with the professionalism and commercialisation of sport, which, according to Striegel et al. (2002) coincided with the increasing usage of performance-related substances.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Work Less, Live More? : Critical Analysis of the Work-Life Boundary |
| Place of Publication | U.K |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 210-223 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780230535602 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- sports
- performance
- doping in sports
- athletes