Power struggles off the field To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams - and to those who play on them - our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls the ""paternalistic era,"" from 1921 to the early 1960s, baseball's management ...
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Power struggles off the field To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams - and to those who play on them - our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls the ""paternalistic era,"" from 1921 to the early 1960s, baseball's management rigidly maintained racial segregation, established a network of southern-based farm teams to serve as a captive source of cheap replacement labor, and crushed attempts by players to create collective bargaining institutions. In the 1960s, however, the paternal order crumbled, eroded in part by the civil rights movement and the arrival of television. As a consequence, in the ""inflationary era"" that followed, both players and umpires established effective unions that successfully pressed for higher pay, pensions, and greater occupational mobility - and then fought increasingly bitter struggles to hold on to these hard-won gains.
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Near Fine. Near fine (some foxing to the edges of the text block). Paperback. xi + 346 pages, with bibliography and index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The author examine sthe turbulent labor history of American baseball since the beginning of the Commissioner system in 1921. In what Burk calls the "paternalistic era" from 1921 to the early 1960s, baseball's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, establish a netwoek of southern-based farm teams that provided a cheap source of replacement labor, and crushed any attempts by players to create collective bargaining agreements. This system crumbled in the 60s.
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