Career volunteering in commodityintensive serious leisure: Motorsport events and their dependence on volunteers/amateurs

Loisir et Societe

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 421-452

  Harrington, Maureen ^a   Cuskelly, Graham ^a   Auld, Christopher ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0034355835     PISSN: 07053436     EISSN: 17050154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07053436.2000.10707538     Document Type: Article

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