ABSTRACT
Sport is used to teach a modern (lower-class) workforce the requirements that employers wish of their employees in a capitalist economy. In sport, these same youths are also being trained to value the attributes of soldiering and extreme risk-taking. The structure of sport influences coaches to abuse their athletes in order to win. Gender-integrating sports teams are more valuable than gender-integrating men and women in other masculinized terrains because virtually all boys play organized sport. A variety of interventions have been suggested to decrease sedentary time in the workplace and to increase physical activity levels on a day-to-day basis. Greater sedentary time in the workplace, an increase in the use of passive modes of transport, and reduced activity during leisure time has all contributed to the current worldwide physical inactivity pandemic. Sport helps reproduce class inequality, particularly by offering false hope for those in economic disparity.
