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Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed. This book is the first volume to bring together a majority of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional road cycling. Each chapter treats a particular economic aspect of the sport, from organizational structure to marketing, labor, game theory, and competitive balance.  By discussing the existing research and complementing it with the newest concepts, ideas and data on professional road cycling, this book sets an agenda for further academic research while providing insights for all stakeholders in cycling: governments, cycling's governing bodies, team managers, race organizers, sponsors, media. Furthermore, the unique characteristics of the sport of cycling explored within this text inform broader management and industrial organization research, as they extend analyses of team labor, broadcast revenue generation, and sponsorship financing models. This book is equally of interest to academic researchers, students studying sports economics, and policy makers, such as race organizers, team managers, and sponsors.

Recreation & Sports --- Social Sciences --- Bicycle racing. --- Cycling --- Economic aspects. --- Bicycle riding --- Bicycle transportation --- Bicycling --- Microeconomics. --- Industrial organization. --- Labor economics. --- Economics. --- Labor Economics. --- Industrial Organization. --- Economics --- Industries --- Organization --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial management --- Industrial sociology --- Price theory --- Aerobic exercises --- Locomotion --- Bicycles --- Dicycles --- Tricycles --- Unicycles --- Racing

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"Analyzes how print and visual texts of various kinds reflect, refract, and respond to the social and political significance of the bicycle from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present"-- "Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as "vehicles" for that text's themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban elite to reconnect with nature and for women to gain a measure of personal freedom, while during World War II it became a utilitarian tool of the French Resistance and in 1970s China stood for wealth and modernization. Lately it has functioned variously as the favored ideological steed of environmentalists, a means of community bonding and aesthetic self-expression in hip hop, and the ride of choice for bike messenger-idolizing urban hipsters. Culture on Two Wheels analyzes the shifting cultural significance of the bicycle by examining its appearances in literary, musical, and cinematic works spanning three continents and more than 125 years of history. Bringing together essays by a variety of cyclists and scholars with myriad angles of approach, this collection highlights the bicycle's flexibility as a signifier and analyzes the appearance of bicycles in canonical and well-known texts such as Samuel Beckett's modernist novel Molloy, the Oscar-winning film Breaking Away, and various Stephen King novels and stories, as well as in lesser-known but equally significant texts, such as the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's film Sacrifice and Elizabeth Robins Pennell's nineteenth-century travelogue A Canterbury Pilgrimage, the latter of which traces the route of Chaucer's pilgrims via bicycle. "--

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Bicycles and bicycling. --- Bicycles --- Bicycles in motion pictures. --- Bicycles in literature. --- Bicycles and tricycles --- Bikes --- Cycles (Bicycles) --- Human powered vehicles --- Cycling --- Velocipedes --- Motion pictures --- Social aspects. --- Bicyclettes dans la littérature --- Bicyclettes au cinéma --- Bicyclettes --- Aspect social