{"product_id":"9781869142162","title":"South Africa's World Cup: A Legacy for Whom?","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking book provides a critically informed analysis of the impact and legacy of mega-sporting events through the lens of South Africa's 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup and its associated developmental paradigm. It challenges mainstream thinking and mega-event praise singers by providing concrete evidence to show that this sporting spectacular was little more than a front for massive accumulation and extraction of wealth, alongside increased sporting and socio-economic inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors to this volume examine the sports accumulation-complex, economic promises, construction companies, trade unions, strikes, international solidarity, the struggle to trade, sex work, climate change, as well as case studies on the building of individual soccer stadiums.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEddie Cottle is the regional policy and campaign officer of the Building and Wood Workers' international (BWI) for Africa and the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a timely reminder that the 2010 World Cup nation-building illusion in fact disguised a reality of greed, elite enrichment and nepotism - and left us with a terrible financial hangover.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerry Bell, columnist at Independent Newspapers, Business Report, and independent economic\/labour analyst\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Kwazulu-Natal Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033003901168,"sku":"9781869142162","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781869142162_p0.jpg?v=1763601732","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781869142162","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}