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From company doctors to managed care : the United Mine Workers' noble experiment /
"The Welfare and Retirement Fund of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is widely acknowledged as the most innovative effort at group health care in the United States in the twentieth century. Ivana Krajcinovic describes the establishment, operation, and demise of the fund that brought mi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
ILR Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Cornell studies in industrial and labor relations ;
no. 31. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The centrality of health benefits in labor contracts
- The early history of health plans for workers
- Bargaining for benefits: the fund and the transformation of industrial relations in the coal industry
- Designing the fund
- The delivery of physician care under the fund's managed care initiatives
- Hospital care: the Miners Memorial Hospital Association
- External challenges to the operation of the fund
- The transformation and dismantling of the fund.