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Improved living conditions for the working class
- Reforms, improvement and freedoms increased for the working class.
- Earnings improved and hours working reduced, industrial patronage become more widespread.
- Reforms came about as industrialists wanted a healthy, content and disciplined work force.
- Some factories offered social, recreational and sporting opportunities
- Some owners had genuine Christian motives, wanted to win loyalty and increase work output
- The annual excursionist trip to the seaside was part of working class culture by the end of the 19th century
The transport revolution
- railways were the most significant form of transport and increased the chance to both participate in and to watch sport
The railway
- took people further in a shorter time
- enabled distant teams to play each other and take supporters
- caused a standardised set of rules to be needed
- speeded up the development of leagues, cups and competitions
- allowed people to get to the countryside
- factory owners were able to lay on excursion trips
The class system
- strict class system underpinned and operated in British society
- class determined income, housing, lifestyle and sporting opportunities
- also determined your status as an amateur or professional
Free time: Saturday half-day and the early closing movement
- the early closing movement sought to reduce working hours, particularly in shops
- excessive working hours were increasing thought to be damaging to the health and well-being of workers
- between 1870 -1890 workers were granted half day Saturdays giving them the opportunity to play or watch sport
- by 1870 some workers had 2 or 3 days of paid holiday
- by 1890 a week paid holiday was common
- wages of industrial work increases and more third-class rail fares had become available allowing more freedom to travel
Changing views of the church - the 1850s, evangelism and social Christianity
- by the mid 19th century with Muscular Christianity and rational recreation caused changes
- Muscular Christian-The combination of godliness and manliness, the belief in having a strong and fit body to match a robust and healthy soul
- ex public school boys an d university men promoted sport and games in their parishes while in the YMCA encouraged participation in young clerks
Amateurism and professionalism
- influenced the nature and development of rationalised sports and pastimes
- middle-class gentlemen took part for the love of sport and intrinsic reward
- working-class men that did not have the time to play for fun had the chance to play for money as a professional
Women in Victorian Britain
- in early Victorian Britain it was thought inappropriate for a middle-class lady to exercise, sweat or display her body meaning sport was outlawed
- it was also thought to be medically harmful to women
- the invention of lawn tennis in the 1870s became route to social and physical emancipation for women. This new game met women's needs for enthusiasm for a form of acceptable physical exercise
- as exercise became acceptable for middle class women clothing began to be designed which encouraged freer movement
- working class women neither had the opportunity nor provision for leisure time physical activity
Varying opportunities for participation
- class and gender continued to affect participation along with 3 variables; opportunity, provision and esteem
- the emergence of the middle class was significant. Without access to horses they invented the bicycle and without access to real tennis they invented lawn tennis
- the middle class drove the rationalisation and development of sport while the working class had to wait for opportunities to participate at a community level, perhaps via factory or local authority (municipal) public park provision
Impact on and links today
- still have a mainly decentralised, amateur and voluntary way of organising and administrating sport in the UK, particularly at lower levels
- as a direct result the formation of NGB's and many sports clubs
- recently we've started to have a more professional approach towards sport at all levels
- the ethics of sportsmanship are linked to rational recreation