The Accidental Action of Journalists in Taiwan：An Analysis of Min Sheng Daily
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Huang, Kuo-Su
Abstract
After Min Sheng Daily closed without any sign, the journalists of this newspaper consulted to the capital party gently and compromised rapidly, which caused the public criticism. The purpose of this research is to analyze the accidental action of labor party of Min Sheng Daily, and propose the recommendation. This paper focuses on the entity of journalists. The concept of “group personality” proposed by Elias is used to explain how the organizational culture and organizational control of newspaper office influence the collective action of labor party after the newspaper office closed, and emphasize the interact among the labor party, capital party and trade union, expect to show the dynamic process of this accidental action. This research quotes the logic theory of collective action proposed by Offe and Wiesenthal (1980), Olson, M., (1971/1989) to discuss how labor organization forms the collective cognition to overcome the cost of collective action. The previous researches considered that the collective action of labor party must depend on labor''s consciousness. Under weak class consciousness of labor in Taiwan, the argumentation of Marx school is difficult to fully explain the collective action process of this case. The research method of this paper mainly relies on deeply interview, and complements it with the second hand literature. It is found in the research that under the organizational control of Min Sheng Daily office, the inside of this newspaper office became an organization with little communication dispute. The white collar journalists formed gentle group personality under this organizational culture. Meanwhile, because the newspaper owner took care of the employees, insisted on fresh and healthy newspaper images, the journalists approved the newspaper office economically and emotionally, and even the signboard of the newspaper office became important personal marks of journalists at their media careers. This facilitated fast emergence of labor party after the newspaper office closed without sign, and also promoted the fast compromise of labor party. Under the consideration of the honorable necessity and economic necessity, the labor party launched to the accidental collective action. However, due to the restraint of white collar journalists, the conflict generated in the action process of labor party and capital party, the collective action of labor party was destroyed by the big grade of pension rapidly, and the capital party took the power advantage in three parties all the time. Upon reviewing the accidental action experience of labor party of Min Sheng Daily, one may learn that the distribution of opposite newspaper could be considered as a way to serve as the economic backing of labor party in the future, and through this way concentrating the clear collective identity. Using corporate images and appealing to the public opinion as the negotiation base may also be means to strive for the laborers’ rights and interests.
Subjects
Min Sheng Daily
United Daily News Series Industrial Association
accidental action
group personality
collective identity
organizational culture
Type
thesis
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