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Sweated Labour, Literally Speaking: The Case of Australian Jockeys

In: The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim

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  • Braham Dabscheck

    (University of Melbourne)

Abstract

This chapter provides an examination of the income, employment status and employment conditions of jockeys and offers a number of policy recommendations to overcome various problems they experience. Jockeys receive average incomes lower than the Australian full-time workforce and those of other leading Australian sports, and receive a low percentage of the income they generate. They have been employed as independent contractors. An examination of their employment reveals they should be regarded as employees and would receive the same entitlements available to the workforce as a whole, under Australian law. Their working life is dominated by the constant use of “wasting” to reduce and maintain their weight that has detrimental physical and psychological effects.

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  • Braham Dabscheck, 2015. "Sweated Labour, Literally Speaking: The Case of Australian Jockeys," Sports Economics, Management, and Policy, in: Young Hoon Lee & Rodney Fort (ed.), The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim, edition 127, pages 311-331, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:semchp:978-3-319-10037-1_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10037-1_17
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