Workers' playtime: developing an explanatory typology of work-associated sport in Britain

Citation

Vamplew W (2016) Workers' playtime: developing an explanatory typology of work-associated sport in Britain. In: Pomfret R & Wilson J (eds.) Sports through the Lens of Economic History. New Horizons in the Economics of Sport. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 106-127. http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/sports-through-the-lens-of-economic-history; https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784719951.00013

Abstract
This chapter establishes a chronology of development of work-associated sport. It analyses the workplace as a stimulus to sporting activity, and looks at whether the stimulus has come from employers or employees, what sports were offered and what facilities were provided.