Partisan players: sport, working-class culture, and the labour movement in South Wales 1920-1939

This article argues against the prevalent notion that sport was insignificant to inter-war Welsh labour by showing that it was in fact a 'vital area of interest' for local activists associated with leftist organisations. In South Wales, numerous sporting opportunities provided by the local...

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Published in:	Labor history 2014-10, Vol.55 (5), p.580-593
Main Author:	Leeworthy, Daryl
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	20th century Activism clarion Communism Culture Interwar years Labor Movements Labour Labour movements Left Wing Politics Liberalism Political activism Social classes Social history Socialism sport Sports Studies United Kingdom Wales Workers Working Class
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Summary:	This article argues against the prevalent notion that sport was insignificant to inter-war Welsh labour by showing that it was in fact a 'vital area of interest' for local activists associated with leftist organisations. In South Wales, numerous sporting opportunities provided by the local labour movement were taken up with notable enthusiasm by local workers. It is demonstrated that this represented a 'vibrant attempt to forge a coherent alternative to mainstream sporting activity by fusing it with political allegiance' and that sport became 'an articulation of working class self-awareness ... [and] a mechanism through which working class desires and visions could be expressed'.
ISSN:	0023-656X 1469-9702