Echoes from the Clubs
Title | Echoes from the Clubs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1867 |
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Joining the Clubs
Title | Joining the Clubs PDF eBook |
Author | J. Andrew Ross |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2015-05-21 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0815652933 |
How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945 tells the fascinating story of the game off the ice, offering a play-by-play of cooperation and competition among owners, players, arenas, and spectators that produced a major league business enterprise. Ross explores the ways in which the NHL organized itself to maintain long-term stability, deal with its labor force, and adapt its product and structure to the demands of local, regional, and international markets. He argues that sports leagues like the NHL pursued a strategy that responded both to standard commercial incentives and also to consumer demands that the product provide cultural meaning. Leagues successfully used the cartel form—an ostensibly illegal association of businesses that cooperated to monopolize the market for professional hockey—along with a focus on locally branded clubs, to manage competition and attract spectators to the sport. In addition, the NHL had another special challenge: unlike other major leagues, it was a binational league that had to sell and manage its sport in two different countries. Joining the Clubs pays close attention to these national differences, as well as to the context of a historical period characterized by war and peace, by rapid economic growth and dire recession, and by the momentous technological and social changes of the modern age.
Social Clubs for the Aging Poor
Title | Social Clubs for the Aging Poor PDF eBook |
Author | William L. Kimball |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Evaluation research (Social action programs) |
ISBN |
Service Clubs in American Society
Title | Service Clubs in American Society PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey A. Charles |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780252020155 |
Placing the clubs in the context of twentieth-century middle-class culture, Charles maintains that they represented the response of locally oriented, traditional middle-class men to societal changes. The groups emerged at a time when service was becoming both a middle-class and a business ideal. As voluntary associations, they represented a shift in organizing rationale, from fraternalism to service. The clubs and their ideology of service were welcome as a unifying force at a time when small cities and towns were beset by economic and population pressures.
Cooperative Buying by Farmers' Clubs in Minnesota
Title | Cooperative Buying by Farmers' Clubs in Minnesota PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Dana Durand |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
The Club Woman's Magazine
Title | The Club Woman's Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Cincinnati (Ohio) |
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The Associated Harvard Clubs
Title | The Associated Harvard Clubs PDF eBook |
Author | Harvard University |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1924 |
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