Debuting in 2013, Esquire Network’s first season of White Collar Brawlers features professional-class men with workplace conflicts looking to “settle the score in the ring.” In the show, white-collar men are portrayed as using boxing to reclaim ostensibly primal aspects of masculinity, which their professional lives do not provide, making them appear as better men and more productive constituents of a postindustrial service economy. Through this narrative process, White Collar Brawlers romanticizes a unique fusion of postindustrial white-collar employment and the blue-collar labors of the boxing gym. This construction, which Esquire calls “modern manhood,” simultaneously empowers professional-class men while limiting the social mobility of actual blue-collar workers. Based on a critical textual analysis that adopts provisional and rudimentary aspects of Wacquant’s conception of “pugilistic capital,” we contend that Esquire Network has created a show where men are exposed to and sold an image of “modern manhood” that reifies class-based differences and reaffirms the masculine hegemony of white-collar identities.

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配员：现代人道，基本的Pugilistic首都和Esquire Network的白领斗牛士

Esquire Network于2013年首次亮相，第一季的White Collar Brawlers出现了职场上有冲突的专业级男士，他们希望“解决这个问题”。在节目中，白领男人被描绘成使用拳击来恢复表面上男子气概的原始方面，而这是他们职业生涯无法提供的，这使他们看起来像是后工业服务业中的好男人和生产力更高的组成部分。通过这种叙事过程，白领斗士队将后工业的白领和拳击馆的蓝领劳动的独特融合浪漫化。Esquire称这种建筑为“现代男子气概”，同时赋予专业级男性以权力，同时限制了实际蓝领工人的社会流动性。