A social contract for the coal fields

the rise and fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund

1st ed.
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A social contract for the coal fields

the rise and fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund

1st ed.

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English
Pages
274

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Table of Contents

Establishing the fund
The struggle for control
Retreat and advance : the thirty-year rule and the creation of the miners' hospitals
The noble failure : the Miners' Memorial Hospital Association
The national conflict : the fund and the American Medical Association
The decade of crisis
Reform, reorganization, and disaster.

Edition 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)".

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Knoxville
Other Titles
Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association., Mid-America.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.1/088/622
Library of Congress
HD6515.M62 U556 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 274 p. :
Number of pages
274

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6776331M
ISBN 10
1572331011
LCCN
00009341
LibraryThing
4329472
Goodreads
406493

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Work ID
OL7795417W

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