3 The real living wage and ‘the good employer’ in UK football clubs
Peter Prowse and Tony Dobbins
Introduction
There is an existing body of academic knowledge about living wage policy and practice in the UK (Heery et al. 2017, 2018; Hirsch, 2017; Johnson et al. 2019; Linneker and Wills, 2016; Prowse and Fells, 2016a and b; Prowse et al. 2017a and b). But there is no research on living wage policy, practice and outcomes in the context of football. This chapter explores the ethical management of ‘real living wages’ (RLW) for lower-paid staff in British Football League clubs.
A case study of the RLW policy at Luton Town Football Club (LTFC) was undertaken, involving semi-structured interviews with a range of internal participants at LTFC, as ...
Get The Living Wage now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
