The impact of New Labour's modernisation agenda on the English grass-roots football workforce

Managing Leisure

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 140-154

  Lusted, Jim ^a   O'Gorman, Jimmy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grass roots football; Modernisation; New labour; The football association; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954462732     PISSN: 13606719     EISSN: 1466450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13606710903448236     Document Type: Article

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