A social contract for the coal fields
Subtitle: the rise and fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund
By: Richard P. Mulcahy.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: United Mine Workers of America. Welfare and Retirement Fund -- History.; United Mine Workers of America -- History.; Miners -- Medical care -- United States.
Other titles: Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association.; Mid-America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.
"Parts of this book originally appeared as: "'They Shall Walk Again!': The Physical Rehabilitation Program of the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund," in The Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 6 (1994)" and in ""Partitioning the Miners' Welfare State: The Destruction of the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund," in Mid-America : An Historical Review 77, no. 2 (spring-summer 1995)".
Table of contents: value: Establishing the fund; value: The struggle for control; value: Retreat and advance : the thirty-year rule and the creation of the miners' hospitals; value: The noble failure : the Miners' Memorial Hospital Association; value: The national conflict : the fund and the American Medical Association; value: The decade of crisis; value: Reform, reorganization, and disaster.