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Thinking Allowed: Boxing in Gleason's Gym; Sport and Capitalism

27/11/2013

Boxing in Gleason's Gym; Sport and Capitalism

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Boxing in Gleason's Gym; Sport and Capitalism

Is modern sport a product of our economic system? Also, boxing's golden age.

Laurie Taylor explores new research which argues that modern sport is as much a product of our economic system as the factory. Also, boxing's golden age.

Sport and capitalism: Laurie Taylor talks to Professor of History, Tony Collins, about his new book which argues that modern sport is as much a product of our economic system as the factory, the stock exchange and the unemployment line. Also, The US sociologist, Lucia Trimbur, invites us into the everyday world of Gleason's gym, the last remaining institution of New York's golden age of boxing. Once the domain of white and black working class men, it's now shared with women as well as the wealthy.

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