Cricket, capitalism and class : from the village green to the cricket industry / Chris McMillan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMillan, Chris, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge research in sport, culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cricket--Economic aspects.

Cricket.

Cricket--Social aspects.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Contents:

Class : cricket's original sin

Cricket and ideology : the fantasmatic logic of the village green

Cricket and the modern gentleman : class in twenty-first century English cricket

Cricket and the making of global capitalism : Aotearoa, exploitation and expropriation

Cricket, capitalism and colonial rule : the case of India

Cricket, power and post-colonial resistance : the case of the West Indies

Cricket's Asian century : the rise of the IPL

Franchises, freelancers and representation : cricket, neoliberalism and nationalism

Cricket and racial capitalism : the South African case

Consuming cricket : cricket and the cultural logic of late capitalism

Producing cricket : the cricket-media complex

Cricket and patriarchal capitalism : recognising batters

Liberation/alienation/exploitation : global capitalism and the Women's Premier League

Conclusion : cricket in the wreckage of capitalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781000970531 (electronic bk.)

1000970531 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032120267

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.