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The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was
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The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was

Richard M Southall, Mark S Nagel, Ellen J Staurowsky, Richard T Karcher and Joel G Maxcy
2023

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A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athletics. The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes provides a comprehensive historical, sociological, legal, financial, and managerial argument for the reclassification of profit-athletes as employees. The authors cut through the institutional doublespeak of approved benefits, cost-of-attendance stipends, or "name, image, likeness" (NIL) collectives and provide evidence that the NCAA's amateurism has been a collusive, exploitative, and racialized "pay for play" scheme that disproportionately affects Black profit-athletes. They offer a forward-thinking structure in which individual labor contracts, or a potential collective bargaining agreement, address profit-athlete compensation and working conditions.

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