General Information

Language

English.

Published

Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c1996.

Physical Description

x, 189 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Krüger, Arnd.

Riordan, James, 1936-2012.

Subjects

Subject

Sports > Social aspects > History > 20th century.

Socialism and sports.

Working class > Recreation > History > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Arnd Krüger, James Riordan [editors].

Title Variation

Worker sport

Note

"Collection of chapters, translated from the writings of sports scholars and historians who are natives of the countries in which worker sport played an important role"--Pref.

Content

The German Way of Worker Sport / Arnd Krüger -- The Worker Sport Movement in France / William Murray -- Worker Sport within a Worker State: the Soviet Union / James Riordan -- TUL: the Finnish Worker Sport Movement / Leena Laine -- Austria: "New Times are with us" / Reinhard Krammer -- The British Worker's Sports Federation: 1923-1935 / Stephen Jones -- A VItal Period in Swedish Worker Sport: 1919-1936 / Rolf Palbrant -- Landmarks in the History of Norwegian Worker Sport / Gerd von der Lippe -- Worker Sport in the New World: the Canadian Story / Bruce Kidd -- Hapoel: Israel's Worker Sport Organisation / Uriel Simri -- The Two International Worker Sport Organizations: Socialist Worker Sports International and Red Sport International / Franz Nitsch -- Worker Sport Around the World / Arnd Krüger.

ISBN

087322874

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	306.4/83 KRU		Reference	-

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