Labor Arbitration in America

Bognanno and Coleman offer the most comprehensive current and valuable work on arbitrators and their professional practice. The contributors to this volume describe paths of career entry compensation demographics market conditions facing arbitrators and caseloads. The empirically based findings are drawn from a representative sampling of all the nation''s arbitrators and afford a previously unavailable picture. The reader gains important insights into these decisionmakers'' backgrounds career development arbital experiences and aspirations.This work is especially important because many of the arbitrators'' characteristics which are captured and described herein are seen to be enduring or open only to change over an extended time period. The material fascinating in its detailed analysis of a vital but surprisingly unstudied profession presents a rich analysis of an occupation that has played a societal role of major significance from earliest times. A work accordingly of widespread interest and value relating to the ever fertile fields of dispute resolution.