Free Agent

Free Agent
Author: Rennie Curran
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: African American football players
ISBN: 9781936937639

Free Agents

Free Agents
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Looks at the work and lives of the closely-knit group of graffiti artists rooted in DC who were, in effect, free agents. These artists painted to please themselves, to gain recognition, and for the satisfaction of setting out to do something and carrying through.

Free Agents

Free Agents
Author: Max Apple
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1984
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Free Agent Nation

Free Agent Nation
Author: Daniel H. Pink
Publisher: Business Plus
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2001-04-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780759522312

Widely acclaimed for its engaging style and provocative perspective, this book has helped thousands transform their working lives. Now including a 30-page resource guide that explains the basics of working for oneself. It's about fulfillment. A revolution is sweeping America. On its front lines are people fed up with unfulfilling jobs, dysfunctional workplaces, and dead-end careers. Meet today's new economic icon: the free agent-men and women who are working for themselves. And meet your future. It's about freedom. Free agents are the marketing consultant down the street, the home-based "mompreneur," the footloose technology contractor. Already 30 million strong, these 21st-century pioneers are creating lives with more meaning-and often more money. Free Agent Nation is your ticket to this world. It's about time. Now, you can discover: The kind of free agent you can be-"soloist," "temp," or "microbusiness"-and how to launch your new career. How to get the perks you once received from your boss: health insurance, office space, training, workplace togetherness, even water cooler gossip. Why the free agent economy is increasingly a woman's world-and how women are flourishing in it. The transformation of retirement-how older workers are creating successful new businesses (and whole new lives) through the Internet.

Don't Be Afraid to Win

Don't Be Afraid to Win
Author: Jim Quinn
Publisher: Radius Book Group
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1635766850

Labeled by The New York Times as “instrumental in helping change the face of major professional sports,” attorney Jim Quinn has influenced modern sports business for decades. Beginning back in the 1970’s with the landmark Oscar Robertson basketball free agency case, Quinn battled owners in all four major leagues to make sure the players got their fair share. In the early 1990’s, he faced the goliath National Football League and won the right to free agency for players, Quinn has spent a lifetime dealing in the gritty sports business to make fair agreements for players. Quinn shares significant cases and legal proceedings across major American sports and tells stories of the courtroom battles he fought on behalf of players and labor leaders seeking economic justice in their workplace. He sheds light on known and unknown figures who committed to larger causes than themselves and that modern sports owes a debt to the leaders of the past who risked their careers. Through Quinn’s lengthy career he has helped to empower athletes to speak and act in the best interest of the sports community and overcome some of the toxic figures who sought to drag down league success for their own ego and greed. In Don’t Be Afraid to Win, Quinn provides a unique point of view of someone who was personally involved in making changes happen in the business. His is a masterful examination of how sports has grown dramatically over the decades, how it benefited from the rise of sports unions and free agency, and how there is still fairness to be gained across the leagues.

A Well-Paid Slave

A Well-Paid Slave
Author: Brad Snyder
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2007-09-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1440619018

A “captivating”* look at how center fielder Curt Flood's refusal to accept a trade changed Major League Baseball forever. After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever. At the time there were no free agents, no no-trade clauses. When a player was traded, he had to report to his new team or retire. Unwilling to leave St. Louis and influenced by the civil rights movement, Flood chose to sue Major League Baseball for his freedom. His case reached the Supreme Court, where Flood ultimately lost. But by challenging the system, he created an atmosphere in which, just three years later, free agency became a reality. Flood’s decision cost him his career, but as this dramatic chronicle makes clear, his influence on sports history puts him in a league with Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali. *The Washington Post

Playing for Dollars

Playing for Dollars
Author: Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501717855

Fans of professional sports have been forced to pay attention to labor relations in the last five years. The 1994—1995 season reminded baseball enthusiasts that a player's strike can mean something more than a swing and a miss, and the fans of other sports have experienced similar frustrations. In Playing for Dollars, Paul D. Staudohar analyzes the business dimension of sports with a timely assessment of the interactions among labor, management, and government in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Author of The Sports Industry and Collective Bargaining, an earlier version of the current volume, Staudohar describes the mechanics of contract and salary negotiations, including the pivotal issue of free agency. He explains how unions became established in sports, how the balance of power shifted between owners and players, and how the salaries of stars escalated. He investigates the gambling controversies and changing drug policies that have sometimes alienated fans and comments, as well, on the impact AIDS has had on professional sports. Sports events are media events and Staudohar takes a look at the effects of television contracts and international expansion. He also considers the future of team sports, discussing league expansion, prospects for growth, and the issue of franchise relocation.

A Nation of Agents

A Nation of Agents
Author: James E. Block
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2002-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674008830

Block offers a new perspective on the formation of the modern American self and society. He roots self and society in the concept of agency, rather than liberty, and dispenses with the national myth of the “sacred cause of liberty”—with the Declaration of Independence as its “American scripture.”

Anigrafs

Anigrafs
Author: Whitman Richards
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262527782

An innovative proposal for understanding how mental organisms make decisions and control behavior.

Free Agent

Free Agent
Author: Brian Crozier
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: