1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910705613103321

Titolo

Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act : exploring institutional risk-sharing : hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session ... May 20, 2015

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 63 pages)

Collana

S. hrg. ; ; 114-624

Soggetti

Student loans - Government policy - United States

Student financial aid administration - United States

Loans - United States - Government guaranty

Legislative hearings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783761103321

Autore

Robidoux Michael A

Titolo

Men at play : a working understanding of professional hockey / / Michael A. Robidoux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-282-85921-8

9786612859212

0-7735-6909-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

305.9/7969

Soggetti

Hockey - Canada - Sociological aspects

Hockey players - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii -- Introduction 3 -- 1 Producing the "Self" in Professional Hockey 6 -- 2 Repression, Incorporation, and Segregation: -- The Evolution of Sport in Canada 3Z -- 3 The Meaningful Universe of Professional Hockey: -- The Ethnography 50 -- 4 The Game 65 -- 5 The Practice on Off-Days 85 -- 6 Entering into the Trade of Professional Hockey oo -- 7 Homogenizing Men in Professional Hockey x27 -- 8 Power, Play, and Powerlessness 15I -- Conclusion i88.

Sommario/riassunto

Players dedicate their lives to the goal of playing professional hockey and teams demand total commitment from their players, giving them complete control over almost all aspects of the players' lives. With the enormous labour turnover in the AHL and the surplus labour pool, players are extremely vulnerable: they must perform well or be replaced by the scores of other men willing to do the same job. With limited education and limited life skills, players seldom meet people who are not connected to the game and, when they do, they do so with trepidation. The constructed universe of the game consumes the players so that, in spite of any wealth they may accumulate, they often know nothing other than the game and have invested everything in an



occupation where their services quickly become obsolete. Far from the sensational memoirs of those few players who make it to the top, Robidoux's Men at Play offers a bracing inside look at the dynamics of the fastest game on earth.