Boxing in Gleason's Gym; Sport and Capitalism
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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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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| 1:20.3 | Hello I can still see the scene in our house on the night back in 1947 when England's great |
| 1:27.8 | heavyweight hero Bruce Woodcock fought the American Joe Baxie. |
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