Different class : the untold story of English cricket
Stone, Duncan2022
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In examining recreational rather than professional (first-class) cricket, 'Different Class' demonstrates how the values and belief systems at its heart were, under the guise of amateurism, intentionally developed in order to divide the English along class lines. If the creation of opposing class-based cricket cultures in the North and South of England grew out of this process, the institutional structures continue to discriminate. But, as much as the exclusion of Black and South Asian cricketers from the recreational mainstream is the most obvious example, it is social class that remains the greatest barrier to participation in what used to be the national game.
Main title:
Different class : the untold story of English cricket / Duncan Stone.
Author:
Stone, Duncan, author
Imprint:
London : Repeater, 2022.
Collation:
325 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781913462802 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
796.358094796.358796.358 STON
Language:
English
BRN:
2532699
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