3.1.3. Post Industrial

Question 1

Class Impact on society

Answer 1

• Emergence of Middle Class
• Professionals, factory owners, managers
• Didn’t own big estates and weren’t born into aristocracy

Question 2

Class impact on sport

Answer 2

• More time and money in sport
• Many went to public schools and were influential in development of rules and NGBs

Question 3

Law and order impact on society

Answer 3

• Police force and RSPCA introduced
• More defined laws

Question 4

Law and order impact on sport

Answer 4

• Affected type of activities undertaken, especially for LC
• LC= decline in blood sports
• UC= held onto sports such as fox hunting
• Law makers from middle/upper class

Question 5

Education impact on society

Answer 5

• Education Act 1870 was beginning of national system of state education
• Working class had little interest in education as it was perceived to be of little relevance
• Child labour was still common practice- working class families reluctant to give up earnings of children

Question 6

Education impact on sport

Answer 6

• Education became more accessible to lower class therefore more understanding of sophisticated rules = more participation

Question 7

Gender impact on society

Answer 7

• Women expected to marry and have children
• Suffragettes campaigned to bring equal rights to women
• Spearhead of women’s movements were equality in education, owning property and voting

Question 8

Gender impact on sport

Answer 8

• Women encouraged to take part in sport in school
• Lawn Tennis helped emancipation of women- played by MC, non violent, could be played in garden
• Women took part in cycling

Question 9

Income impact on society

Answer 9

• LC = lack of disposable income
• Large factories= owners would pay for annual excursion for workers such as trip to seaside

Question 10

Income impact on sport

Answer 10

• Owners provided broken time payments for workers to take time off work to play sport, alongside workers being able to afford to spectate

Question 11

Time impact on society

Answer 11

• Growth of factories and machinery meant working hours were long (72 hr week)
• By end of century = 56 hr week
• LC had less time

Question 12

Time impact on sport

Answer 12

• Little time and energy to participate for workers
• Saturday half day providing a short period of time for sport to take place

Question 13

Transport impact on society

Answer 13

• Development of railways and improved roads to travel around country
• Railway had significant impact on regularity and locality of sport

Question 14

Transport impact on sport

Answer 14

• Allowed fixtures to be played around country and spectators able to visit
• Agreed rules needed
• Horse racing could take place more regularly
• Cricket teams toured country to play

Question 15

Amateur

Answer 15

• Not paid, pride over money
• rugby union

Question 16

Professional

Answer 16

• Paid to play
• Separate changing rooms
• Cleaned kit and boots as part of payment
• Received payment to cover transport and missed work costs
• Equal standard to amateurs but treated diff
• Broken time payments