著者

阿部 武尊

出版者

スポーツ史学会

雑誌

スポーツ史研究 (ISSN:09151273)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.30, pp.31-40, 2017

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the process of labor negotiation by Japan ProfessionalBaseball Players Association (JPBPA) in order to capture the change of the status of the players,who are the important persons concerned in the professional baseball world. This article focuses theperiod from 1993, when a free agent (FA) system was introduced to 2004, when the JPBPA went onstrike for the first time in baseball history in Japan.<BR>After introduction of a FA system, the JPBPA continued to succeed in a certain level of improvementof the working conditions.<BR>And, since 1999, the JPBPA addressed the structural improvement of the baseball world as newmovements.<BR>However, the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) often made the player's workingconditions worse without the JPBPA's recognitions. The worst of them was the baseball alignmentin 2004. The JPBPA engaged in collective bargaining and strike with their legal rights as a laborunion. As a result, they stopped reduction of the number of the clubs, stopped making their workingconditions worse, and obtained the chances of discuss about structural improvements of Japaneseprofessional baseball with the NPB.<BR>We should pay attention to having gained such achievements by the JPBPA under the conditionwhich the NPB seems to lead the process of the negotiation.