scholarly journals Medical Care Innovations of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund

1968 ◽  
Vol 83 (7) ◽  
pp. 611
Author(s):  
Lorin E. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Retirement Fund ◽  
United Mine Workers ◽  
United Mine ◽  
Mine Workers

A Social Contract for the Coal Fields: The Rise and Fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund. By Richard P. Mulcahy. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp xiii, 274. $34.00.

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1153-1154
Author(s):  
Lawrence W. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New York ◽  
Story Line ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
Narrative History ◽  
Retirement Fund ◽  
United Mine Workers ◽  
Pension Benefits ◽  
United Mine ◽  
Mine Workers

This is a book that deserves a wider readership than its title might suggest. More than a narrow history concerning health and pension benefits received by one union, it touches on nearly every issue that has been raised concerning health care and social-security reform. Richard Mulcahy accomplishes this feat through a clearly written narrative history that seldom strays from its basic story line. The story involves the founding, development and demise of medical coverage provided by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Welfare and Retirement Fund. Furthermore Mulcahy provides what might be called a revisionist historical assessment of John L. Lewis, president of the UMWA; specifically that his regime might not have been the “Corrupt Kingdom” described by William Finley (The Corrupt Kingdom. The Rise and Fall of the United Mine Workers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972).

The United Mine Workers Medical Care Program

1983 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Lorin E. Kerr ◽  
Paul B. Cornely ◽  
Henry C. Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Care Program ◽  
United Mine Workers ◽  
United Mine ◽  
Mine Workers

“Judases”

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-92
Keyword(s):  
Gilded Age ◽  
Local Union ◽  
Union Leadership ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
Union Decline ◽  
United Mine Workers ◽  
United Mine ◽  
Mine Workers

Chapter 3 examines the reasons that caused workers to leave or reject unions. Scholars normally associate union decline with workers disillusion with unionism. This chapter, however, argues that workers’ faith in unionism did not waver as much as their faith in union leaders did. As Gilded Age unions like the United Mine Workers implemented a more centralized hierarchy, local union autonomy waned. As a result, workers doubted whether union leaders made decisions with the workers’ interests in mind, and they left the union when it seemed their leaders went astray. Rather than abandoning unionism altogether, however, many of these individuals formed local unions that rivaled the national unions, indicating that workers had more problems with union leadership than they did with unionism itself.

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