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Chapter 3: Crackhouse Management: Addiction, Discipline, and DignityANTA02
•Crack selling is like other businesses in that it involves risk and management versus
employee hierarchies
Living with Crack
•Primo was once addict, but his first cousin Felix, who founded the Game Room
(crackhouse)
•Felix offered Primo a job after Felix was injured, allowed him self-worth and
confidence to kick crack habit
•Ray took over after Candy sold the Game Room to him
oFelix lost it after he was sent to prison
oCandy shot Felix after she found him sleeping with his sister
Restructuring Management at the Game Room
•Ray kept Primo, but gave him shift hours and commission from crack
•Ray was very good at labor relations
oKnew when to be violent and when to show friendship without appearing
vulnerable
oDid this by hiring people that were related to family or made them relate to
his family
E.g. by making Primo a godfather they established compadre
•Compadrazgo sanctifies solidarity and reciprocal obligations with men
•Primo was a founding member of Ray’s crackhouses, so he got benefits and became a
successful manager of the Game Room location quickly
oWouldn’t be possible so fast in legal world
•Primo hired Benzie and Caesar as lookouts
oBenzie would disrespect customers a lot
oCaesar smoked crack so couldn’t be trusted
Curbing Addiction and Channeling Violence
•Caesar’s crack and drinking binges made him violent
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