Athletes at Work in Europe (20th-21st Centuries)

No 254, 2016/1 - 180 pages

Pages 3 to 12

Going beyond the Amateur/Professional Sports Dichotomy. A Programme for a Social History of Athletes at Work

By Sébastien Fleuriel, Manuel Schotté

Athletes' Working Conditions

Pages 13 to 29

Portrait of Professional Boxers in France (1905-1914)

By Sylvain Ville

Pages 31 to 45

Earning a Living at the Wheel, with the Risk of Losing One’s Life. European Automobile Pilots (1920s-1930s)

By Sébastien Moreau

Pages 47 to 68

Soccer Slaves? Employment Conditions in Professional Football in England and Wales (1945-1961)

By Matthew Taylor

Pages 69 to 85

Cyclists Riding for Whom? Mutations of a Labour Market (1950-1990)

By Nicolas Lefèvre

Struggles to Define the Framework for Practising Sports

Pages 87 to 101

Suzanne Lenglen and the Definition of Professionalism in Tennis during the Interwar Period

By Florys Castan-Vicente

Pages 103 to 116

Control, Order and Regulation: Reforming the Soviet Athletes’ Pay after the Second World War

By Sylvain Dufraisse

Pages 117 to 131

‘They are Sports Performance Artists’. When Professional Football Players’ Pay Becomes a Tax Issue (1970s-1980s)

By Manuel Schotté

Pages 133 to 144

Professional Sports Outlined in a Collective Bargaining Agreement: The Origins of a Unique Definition (France, 1995-2014)

By Sébastien Fleuriel

Pages 145 to 165

Review Essay