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Actuel Marx
P.U.F.

I.S.B.N.9782130561941
224 pages

p. 71 à 83
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n° 41 2007/1

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Un trafiquant de chair à l’œuvre : passion, pouvoir et profit dans l’économie de la boxe professionnelle

Loïc Wacquant

Résumé de l'article

France has witnessed a significant rise in the recourse to sub-contracting over the last twenty years. The article is the result of an inquiry carried out by way of observation and participation in a boxing club located on the outskirts of Chicago’s «South Side », close to the University of Chicago. The paper focuses on the matchmaker as a particular figure in the world of boxing. A close study of what is a crucial function in the world of boxing throws light on the way the milieu of boxing operates, in its recruitment of young underprivileged Afro-Americans with a view to turning them into competent boxers. In his role as an intermediary, the function of the matchmaker is to oversee the encounter between supply and demand in what, to a large extent, is the body market of boxing. As the individual around whom all the transactions revolve, the matchmaker is the figure on whom the milieu’s various tensions and oppositions are projected. Regarded as an exploiter and a body-trafficker by most of the young men whom he hires, his peers deem him “an honest businessman”. He thus epitomises the general economy of boxing, here understood as a system of exchange of bodies, incorporated within a system of social relations, requiring both the general collaboration of its subjects and the celebration of the success of certain individuals, at the expense of others. The article thus puts forward an empirically grounded economic anthropology, based on the exchange and the wearing-away of what is the most precious possession of those young candidates for success: their own bodies.

Plan de l'article

• « JE SUIS COMME QUELQU’UN QUI ACHÈTE OU VEND DES ACTIONS »

• CONTRAINTES ET CLIENTS

• COLLUSION ET COLLISION

• « BLOOD MONEY »

• « T’AIMES PAS TA MAMAN »: ÉMOTION, INCERTITUDE ET SOUILLURE

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