 | From Company Doctors to Managed Care: The United Mine Workers'' Noble Experiment Subjects: United Mine Workers of America. Welfare and Retirement Fund; Miners -- Medical care -- United States; Insurance Health -- United States; Collective bargaining -- Mining industry -- United States; Krajcinovic describes the establishment, operation, and demise of the UMWA's Welfare Fund that brought mining families from the backwater to the forefront of medical care in less than a decade. Having received her Ph.D. in economics from Yale University, Ivana Krajcinovic is now an organizer, working with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union in Northern California. |
