Choosing Where to Fight
Subtitle: Organized Labor and the Modern Regulatory State, 1948-1987
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780791452448
Subjects: Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Labor unions; Labor & Employment; United States; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political activity; Political Process - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Industrial relations; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; 20th century; History
Description: "Choosing Where to Fight studies how organized labor decided to strategically locate its energies in national policy making. The idea that organized interests divide their efforts among different institutional settings is well known. Waltenburg, however, systematically uncovers the determinants of how labor has decided to engage in one particular policy making arena over another.

He examines labor's actions between 1948 and 1987 in the National Labor Relations Board, the federal circuit courts, and Congress. Labor's choice of where to act, he argues, is an instance of rational decision making under risk. The basis of labor's expectations and preferences for one of these arenas depends on prior experiences and the presence of allies within the particular institution."--BOOK JACKET.