Title A young man's benefit : the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and sickness insurance in the United States and Canada, 1860-1929 / George Emery and J.C. Herbert Emery

Published Montreal, Quâe. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 184 pages) : illustrations, maps Series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 7 McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 7. Contents Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1 The Historical Market for Sickness Insurance and the Institutional History of the IOOF -- 2 The Men Who Were Odd Fellows: the IOOF'S Market for Insurance, 1863-1925 -- 3 The IOOF's Benefit System, 1863-1931 -- 4 The Financial Soundness of the Lodges, 1890-1929 -- 5 Competition in the IOOF'S Insurance Market, 1890-1929 -- 6 A Young Man's Benefit, 1856-1929 -- 7 Epilogue -- APPENDICES -- A: The Roman Catholic Church and Secret Societies -- B: Arrears for Dues and Suspensions of Membership C: IOOF Financial StatisticsD: Grand Lodge Jurisdictions by Classification Group -- E: Technical Details for the Risk-Loading and Probability-of-Ruin Measures -- F: Technical Details for the Calculation of the Hazard Rates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y Summary "Using cliometric methods and records from six grand-lodge archives, A Young Man's Benefit rejects the conventional wisdom about friendly societies and sickness insurance, arguing that 100F lodges were financially sound institutions, were more efficient than commercial insurers, and met a market demand headed by young men who lacked alternatives to market insurance, not older men who had above average risk of sickness disability." "George Emery and Herbert Emery show that many young men joined the Odd Fellows for sickness insurance and quit the society once self-insurance - savings - or family insurance secondary incomes from older children - became feasible for them. The older men who valued the social benefits of membership and did not need the sick benefit gradually became a majority and dismantled the IOOF's insurance provisions."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-180) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Independent Order of Odd Fellows -- Canada -- History Independent Order of Odd Fellows -- United States -- History SUBJECT Independent Order of Odd Fellows Independent Order of Odd Fellows fast Subject Fraternal insurance -- Canada -- History Fraternal insurance -- United States -- History Health insurance -- Canada -- History Health insurance -- United States -- History Insurance, Health -- history History, 19th Century History, 20th Century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- General. MEDICAL -- History. Fraternal insurance Health insurance SUBJECT Canada United States Subject Canada United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Emery, John Charles Herbert, 1965- ISBN 9780773567658 0773567658

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