 Belgium, Italy and professionalism. Chapter 3 in Power, Pain and Professional Cycling, 2024, pp 35-52 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: As in France, professional structures also became the dominant organisational frame in Belgium and Italy. Yet, despite similar outcomes the processes underpinning this differed, the pattern of class dynamics in Belgium diverging both from that of France and Italy. Unlike what occurred in both France and Italy, in Belgium it was the economic bourgeoisie which came to rise alongside the aristocracy as the socially dominant group. One manifestation of this was that commercial and industrial activity was conferred with greater prestige. In tandem with this, sports closely aligned with commercial activity such as professional cycling were relatively resistant to stigmatising labels. The situation in Italy had closer parallels with that of France. A reconstituted social elite emerged, involving sections of a declining nobility and those drawn from an ascendant professional bourgeois, and to a much lesser extent the elite of the economic bourgeois. The relative social security of the professional bourgeoisie aligned with a weakened nobility provided a social climate in which the monetisation of cycling remained relatively free of social stigma. Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21761_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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