{"product_id":"the-ncaa-and-the-exploitation-richard-m-southall-9781643363783","title":"The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athletics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five football and men's basketball has dramatically increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited, their labor has been severely restricted. To mask this inequity, the NCAA and its members created, disseminated, and embedded a fictitious \"collegiate model of athletics\" established and repeatedly modified for the benefit of member schools, designed to ensure profit-athletes were denied employment status and just compensation for their athletic labor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive historical, sociological, legal, financial, and managerial argument for the reclassification of profit-athletes as employees. Such a reclassification would permit profit-athletes to gain not only fair financial compensation but also equal access to educational benefits that have been promised but systematically denied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors trace how Power Five college sports have morphed into a hyper professionalized and commercialized sport-business enterprise. They provide evidence that at least since 1956 the NCAA's amateurism has been a collusive, exploitative, and racialized \"pay for play\" scheme that disproportionately affects Black profit-athletes. The authors cut through the institutional doublespeak of approved benefits, cost-of-attendance stipends, or name, image, likeness (NIL) collectives to lay bare the immorality of Power Five college sports.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case that profit-athletes (and their representatives) must have the right to unionize and freely negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with management (e.g., NCAA, Power Five conferences and athletic departments). In addition, this book offers a forward-thinking structure in which individual labor contracts, or a potential collective bargaining agreement, address profit-athlete compensation and working conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard M. Southall, Mark S. Nagel, Ellen J. Staurowsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643363786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643363783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Richard M. Southall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074577068287,"sku":"9781643363783","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c473f7b2-395c-430d-8262-81a3458f3247.jpg?v=1685454561","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ncaa-and-the-exploitation-richard-m-southall-9781643363783","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}