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| 1. Kennery, Timothy. "Conflict, Alienation, and the National Basketball Association Lockout of 1998: A Labor-relations Perspective" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, Aug 16, 2003 Online <.PDF>. 2009-12-06 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p108106_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Conflict is a very important theme in an organization’s activities, particularly when opposing interests and goals among individuals or groups interrupt the optimal performance of such an organization. Such situations are not alien to professional sports. The National Basketball Association lockout of 1998 is a quintessential example of opposing parties conflicting with each other in such a way as to disrupt the normal functioning of an organization. Many different approaches have been used to help explain this event. Public opinion may find it easy simply to blame the players for demanding higher salaries, or simply to blame the owners for ultimately calling the lockout. Careful analysis, though, reveals that the 1998 NBA lockout was an extremely complex event that went well beyond the financial issue. When examining this event from a variety of angles (financial, organizational, group formational, self-evaluative, racial, and structural points of view), it appears evident that a wide variety of theories is essential in order to explain the lockout in its entirety. The event can strongly be argued from a labor-relations perspective. Using the work of Karl Marx, Melvin Kohn, Melvin Seeman, Gorg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, Mayer Zald and Michael Berger, L. Richard Della Fave, and Matthew Dey, it appears evident that the 1998 NBA lockout can and should be examined from a labor-relations perspective, and this event provides a firm example for the necessity of sports to be studied within the labor relations realm. Furthermore, the problems associated with this event were not easily resolved, and the resolution itself left many questions unanswered, leading one to believe that another labor conflict will result in the NBA in the somewhat near future. |
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| 2. Sawyer, Mark. "Wal-Mart is Coming vs. Hold the Line On Health Care: Media Coverage of the Southern California Grocery Lockout" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 07, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-12-06 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p85485_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper examines coverage in the Los Angeles Times and La Opinion of the Southern California Grocery Lockout |
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