Power Plays
Subtitle: Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the Tennessee Valley Authority (Sociology of Work)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780791430125
Subjects: Work & labour; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Politics/International Relations; History; Law; History - General History; United States; Tennessee Valley Authority; Public Utilities; Government - U.S. Government; Corporations, Government; Electric utilities; Tennessee River Valley
Description: Power Plays provides a conflict model of organizational behavior based on a historical reanalysis of the creation and early development of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from its origins as a World War I munitions plant to its consolidation as the largest electric utility in the United States. It also examines Philip Selznick's classic work, TVA and the Grass Roots.

The book shows how the interactions among the Depression, New Deal politics, the promise of electricity, and diverse ideologies with the strategic and tactical maneuvers of a policy network explain the institutionalization of the TVA.