Still crazy after all those years: continuity in a changing labour market for professional jockeys

Vamplew, Wray (2016) Still crazy after all those years: continuity in a changing labour market for professional jockeys. Sport in Society, 19 (3). pp. 378-399. ISSN 1743-0437

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2015.1059015

Abstract

Using the career of a leading modern rider as a focal point, this article examines the changes and continuities in the labour market for professional jockeys over the past century and a half. It looks at the rigours of the job via travel load, risk of injury and, above all, weight watching; at the rewards both monetary and psychic; at human capital formation; at drug and alcohol issues; and at power relations and disciplinary procedures.


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