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Bureaucratic Beams
A great way to approach the issue of unions and unionization is to examine sports players/athlete unions/associations.
The Major League Baseball (MLB) Players Association, for example, in America is rather well-established, financed, managed, and marketed and reflects a social investment in bureaucratic unionization.
If I take three high-profile, talented European soccer legends such as Luis Figo, Pablo Aimar, and Johann Cruyff and form a hypothetical association managed/spear-headed by them and pit this hypothetical association (call it something like the Left Foot Club) against another hypothetical European soccer legends association managed/spear-headed by players/legends such as David Trezeguet, Michel Platini, and Arthur Antunes Coimbra (aka, Zico) if you like (call it something like the Right Foot Club), then I can make engaging discussions about entertainment marketing (simply through contract-based association/union formation).
The key is financing. If the IRS, for example, is taxing undisclosed members of a private Ku Klux Klan group in Tennessee, then these tax-paying KKK members can claim private religious rights as legal (peaceful and law-abiding) American citizens.
In other words, it may be the case that capitalism can actually fund the materialistic functionalism in unions.
Hoffa (Film)
MLB Players Association
A great way to approach the issue of unions and unionization is to examine sports players/athlete unions/associations.
The Major League Baseball (MLB) Players Association, for example, in America is rather well-established, financed, managed, and marketed and reflects a social investment in bureaucratic unionization.
If I take three high-profile, talented European soccer legends such as Luis Figo, Pablo Aimar, and Johann Cruyff and form a hypothetical association managed/spear-headed by them and pit this hypothetical association (call it something like the Left Foot Club) against another hypothetical European soccer legends association managed/spear-headed by players/legends such as David Trezeguet, Michel Platini, and Arthur Antunes Coimbra (aka, Zico) if you like (call it something like the Right Foot Club), then I can make engaging discussions about entertainment marketing (simply through contract-based association/union formation).
The key is financing. If the IRS, for example, is taxing undisclosed members of a private Ku Klux Klan group in Tennessee, then these tax-paying KKK members can claim private religious rights as legal (peaceful and law-abiding) American citizens.
In other words, it may be the case that capitalism can actually fund the materialistic functionalism in unions.
Hoffa (Film)
MLB Players Association
