PROWSE, Peter and DOBBINS, Tony (2017). How football’s richest clubs fail to pay staff a real living wage. The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited. [Other]
Abstract
English football’s top flight, the Premier League, dominates the sporting world’s league tables for revenue. Star players, managers and executives command lucrative wages. Thanks to the biggest TV deal in world football, the 20 Premier League clubs share £10.4 billion between them.
But this wealth bonanza is not being distributed fairly within clubs. Wages are dramatically lower for staff at the opposite end of the Premier League labour market to players and executives. Many encounter in-work poverty.
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