ABSTRACT This article deploys frameworks from the fields of trade union theory and professional football governance theory to gain an understanding of the tactics deployed by the Professional Footballers’ Association, Scotland (PFAS) for collectively representing the interests of its members. The article explores how the union used the advantages gained through participation in a counter match-fixing project managed by FIFPro to establish itself as a member of an array of committees, task groups and panels so that it might become the collective ‘voice’ of players at the institutional level in football. The article commences with a review of the industrial relations landscape of professional football and the ‘peculiarities’ of the labour market that have produced equally unique trade union strategies that seek to individualise rather than collectivise wage bargaining. The implications of such a strategy are felt in the lack of appropriate contemporary theories of trade union power that might act as explanatory frameworks to aid an understanding of the tactics deployed by PFAS. The article proposes a return to a political institutional model of trade union power popularised by Sidney and Beatrice Webb in the late nineteenth-century. An analysis of interview data collected from a small cohort of expert informants shows that PFAS has taken advantage of a new body in Scottish professional football, the integrity forum, to establish itself as a credible and trustworthy voice of players within broader governing structures, while acknowledging that its sphere of influence remains constrained within a system dominated by more established institutions.

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为PFA苏格兰解决此问题：通过解决足球比赛中的假球的跨国项目建立工会影响力

摘要本文采用了工会理论和职业足球治理理论领域的框架，以了解苏格兰职业足球协会（PFAS）为集体代表其成员的利益而采用的策略。本文探讨了工会如何利用通过参加由FIFPro管理的反比赛固定项目所获得的优势，将自己确立为一系列委员会，任务组和小组的成员，从而使其成为参与者的集体“声音”在足球的机构层面。本文首先回顾了职业橄榄球的劳资关系格局和劳动力市场的“特殊性”，它们产生了同样独特的工会战略，力求个性化而非集体化工资谈判。缺乏适当的当代工会权力理论可能会充当解释性框架，以帮助理解PFAS部署的策略，从而感觉到这种策略的含义。这篇文章提出了一种由西德尼和比阿特丽斯·韦伯在19世纪后期推广的工会权力的政治体制模型。对从一小撮专家线人那里收集的采访数据进行的分析表明，PFAS已经利用了苏格兰职业足球的新成员，诚信论坛，