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For all the billions of dollars the sports industry generates, its labor laws and negotiations are still relatively new, and their impact is only beginning to be felt. Labor Relations in Professional Sports offers a step-by-step examination of how these new management-player relationships have come about and what they may portend for the future. In an engaging style that is rich in sports history and anecdotes, the authors examine the background of the major team sports--baseball, football, basketball, and hockey--and analyze how business and legal considerations have affected each sport's development. They also probe current unresolved issues and predictable future problems, such as the relationships of broadcast networks and sports leagues. Surprisingly, this book with so formidable a title is not only readable but even difficult to put down. Explanations of complex legal decisions are reduced to brief, lucid passages. Extensive footnotes are provided in each chapter for readers who wish greater detail.
Choice

. . . a comprehensive treatment of labor relations in sports. . . . Overall, the book is a slam-dunk success.
Journal of Law and Commerce

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• Preface(p. xi)
• 1 Models for Understanding the Industrial Environment(p. 1)
• Notes TO CHAPTER 1(p. 18)
• 2 The Sports Industry and the Legal Overlay(p. 23)
• Notes TO CHAPTER 2(p. 34)
• 3 Labor Relations in Baseball(p. 47)
• Notes TO CHAPTER 3(p. 79)
• 4 Labor Relations in Football(p. 87)
• Notes TO CHAPTER 4(p. 112)
• 5 The Football Strike of 1982(p. 123)
• Notes TO CHAPTER 5(p. 148)
• 6 (p. 153)
• Notes to Chapter 6(p. 189)
• 7 Labor Relations in Hockey(p. 201)
• Notes TO CHAPTER 7(p. 228)
• 8 Unresolved Issues Facing Sports Unions(p. 233)
• Notes TO CHAPTER 8(p. 246)
• 9 The Future(p. 251)
• Notes TO CHAPTER 9(p. 268)
• Index(p. 277)

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CHOICE Review

Surprisingly, this book with so formidable a title is not only readable but even difficult to put down. Explanations of complex legal decisions are reduced to brief, lucid passages. Extensive footnotes are provided in each chapter for readers who wish greater detail. Major attention is restricted to the four professional sports (baseball, football, basketball, and hockey) for obvious reasons. Other chapters are devoted to industrial models, legal overlay, unresolved problems, and some interesting speculations about the future, including those about potential effects of new technologies or of the successful defiance of the National Football League by the Los Angeles (nee Oakland) Raiders. One problem attendant to the use of the book, either as a class text or as a library acquisition, is its subject, for the labor scene in sports is a rapidly changing one and would demand frequent updating of the book or supplementing it with other, fresher publications. The ``notes style'' is unfamiliar and could be a bit difficult for some users. The writing is uniformly precise except for page 185, which strangely contains four or five usage errors.-W.F. Gustafson, San Jose State University

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

ROBERT C. BERRY is Professor of Law at Boston College and Chairman of the Sports Division of the American Bar Association's Forum Committee on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.

WILLIAM B. GOULD is Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law at Stanford University.

PAUL D. STAUDOHAR is Professor of Business Administration at the University of California at Hayward.