The recent protest by the National Hockey Team's players just before their departure for World Cup, presents an integral part of a collective action- TIMING. The players waited till the right time so that they can be heard loud and across the country of their plight and succeeded since they got media coverage and public support.
The sugarcane farmers from UP went to Delhi on November 19, 2009 to protest against the Fair and Remunerative Prices Act, on the day it was being discussed in the Parliament and as an impact of the farmers' protest the government agreed to scrap it in the next 3 days.
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I am totally agreed to your opinion about the importance of ‘Timing’ in a collective action. For the success of any collective action especially when it is against the system, requires appropriate timing so that it could be reflected well in the society and can fetch the desire results. Without considering the timing and occasions to show the collective opposition, we would not be able to reach our goal of all the efforts.
Timing is important for everything not only for success of a collective action.For your personal success Timing is as imortant as for collective effort.Here the collective action of hockey players is to protest on a planned time(Protest +on time) rather then only protesting which showed the efficiency of their coordination.
Is it really planned protest in both the cases or it was mere a coincidence? Timing may be important but the main thing is that upto which level the collective action has reached and how much risk a group can take as a whole for that collective action.
@ Khokhar Good Point made. The concept of time encompasses maximization of two aspects, bargaining power and total benefits. We have seen many cases that one group leads a charge against the other when it weighs both these factors and when it feels that both the aspects have reached a level wherein the exchange between benefits and costs is optimum (theoretically atleast, as it is very difficult to measure because of the inherent subjectivity). This shows us that too increase the effectiveness of any co-operative behaviour time is an essential factor to be considered.
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