Fringe Benefits: Social Insurance in the Steel Industry

Fringe Benefits: Social Insurance in the Steel Industry
ISBN-10
0803917910
ISBN-13
9780803917910
Series
FRINGE BENEFITS
Category
Social Science / Social Work
Pages
247
Language
English
Published
1982-03-01
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Author
Lawrence S. Root

Description

Fringe Benefits is the first in-depth study of the employee benefits system of a major industrial organization. Working with Inland Steel, a major steel plant in the Chicago area, Root read through company documents, insurance claims and grievance forms, and labour union records, supplementing them with a range of interviews with employers, employees, labour officials, and others. He discovered how the benefits package developed, how it operates -- or fails to operate -- as a form of social insurance for Inland's workers, how it is linked to the public welfare system and how it affects company operations, labour disputes and manpower planning.

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