Sport Time & Society Cl
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In Britain's history, work and leisure have always been yoked together. Until the Reformation, the working year was peppered with Saint's days and ancient pre-Christian festivals. No puritan ethic of godly work could dent the British addiction to pleasure, and even when the Industrial Revolution broke the old cycle, workers created their own festivals. Employers and moralists came to accept the need for leisure, but they preferred the chaotic, often anarchic quality of traditional pastimes which were closely linked to drunkenness and immorality. Organized sport provided spectacle, discipline and orderly participation, a perfect means of controlling men's leisure time as industrial society dominated their working hours. The control of women was achieved by other less subtle means. What began as a means of control became a source of true pleasure and delight for working men: a liberation from daily life, replete with heroes and passionate loyalties. Dennis Brailsford traces the rise and transformation of organized sport, its impact upon social patterns and gender roles, and suggests that today sport is recreating some of the social ills it was first designed to cure more than a century ago.
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