The radium girls, the dark story of America's shining women, Kate Moore
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Genre
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Subject
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- HISTORY + Women
- Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History
- Occupational Diseases + history
- Occupational Exposure
- HISTORY + Military + World War I
- Women's Health
- History
- Watch dial painters + Diseases -- United States -- History
- United States Radium Corporation
- Radium + poisoning
- World War, 1914-1918 + War work -- United States
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Women
- Radium paint + Toxicology
- Case studies
- Radiation Injuries + history
- United States
- World War, 1914-1918 + Women -- United States
- Employers' liability -- United States -- Case studies
- Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Women employees + Diseases -- United States
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The radium girls, the dark story of America's shining women, Kate Moore
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-467) and index
Illustrations
illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The radium girls
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
956341099
Responsibility statement
Kate Moore
Sub title
the dark story of America's shining women
Summary
As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive -- until they began to fall mysteriously ill. As the fatal poison of the radium took hold, they found themselves embroiled in one of America's biggest scandals and a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights
Table of contents
List of key characters -- Prologue -- Part one. Knowledge -- Part two. Power -- Part three. Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript
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