From Company Doctors to Managed Care : The United Mine Workers' Noble Experiment /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Krajcinovic, Ivana, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United Mine Workers of America. > Welfare and Retirement Fund.
United Mine Workers of America > Welfare and Retirement Fund
Miners > Medical care.
Health insurance.
Collective bargaining > Mining industry.
coal mines.
Negociations collectives.
Charbon > Mines et extraction.
Assurance-maladie.
Negociations collectives > Mines > Industrie > États-Unis.
Assurance-maladie > États-Unis.
Mineurs > Soins medicaux > États-Unis.
National Health Insurance, United States
Collective Bargaining
Coal Mining
Insurance, Health
Insurance Benefits
Collective bargaining.
Coal mines and mining.
Collective bargaining > Mining industry > United States.
Health insurance > United States.
Miners > Medical care > United States.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
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.

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