Abstract
This chapter focuses on the relationship between sport, the dominant modes of production, and how the body, when placed within sporting contexts, (re)produces modern capitalism's social class hierarchies. It outlines how scholars have conceptualized tensions arising from the relations of industrial capitalism, the body, and sport. The chapter specifically focuses on power, the sporting body, and social class politics. As counter‐capitalist revolutionary thinking and action began to spread across much of the developed world, in many nations sport emerged as a site for confronting the dominant capitalist order of social and economic life. In this tradition, supporters of sport and critics of capitalism around the world established worker sport movements: in Britain, in France, and in the United States. The living bodies of the global free market are united in and through the economic and cultural formations of neoliberal sport.