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From Company Doctors to Managed Care - United Mine Workers' Noble Experiment (Hardcover, illustrated edition) Loot Price: R1,807
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From Company Doctors to Managed Care - United Mine Workers' Noble Experiment (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Ivana...

From Company Doctors to Managed Care - United Mine Workers' Noble Experiment (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

Ivana Krajcinovic

Series: Cornell Studies in Industrial & Labor Relations, No. 31

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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 mining families from the backwater to the forefront of medical care in less than a decade.

The UMWA was one of the first unions to take advantage of conditions created by World War II to bargain for employer-financed health benefits. Spurning convention, the UMWA not only retained control of health benefits but also utilized then unorthodox managed care principles in arranging for the care of its members. Perhaps even more remarkable, the union designed the Fund to care for a beneficiary group with extremely high demands. Initially poor and neglected, miners were encumbered by the additional health burdens of a hazardous industry.

Krajcinovic analyzes the success of the Fund over nearly three decades in providing high-quality cost-effective care to miners and their families. She also explains the irony of its dismantlement at the very moment when its innovations gained currency among mainstream commercial plans.

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Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Cornell Studies in Industrial & Labor Relations, No. 31
Release date: November 1997
Authors: Ivana Krajcinovic
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-3392-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Industrial relations > Trade unions
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-8014-3392-4
Barcode: 9780801433924

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