Moore, Kate (Writer and editor),
The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore. - xvi, 479 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
"Originally published in 2016 in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK."--Title page verso. Includes reading group guide (pages 409-410).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-467) and index.
List of key characters -- Prologue -- Part one. Knowledge -- Part two. Power -- Part three. Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
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.
9781492649359 149264935X
2016040681
United States Radium Corporation.
Watch dial painters--Diseases--History.--United States
Radium paint--Toxicology.
Industrial hygiene--History--United States--20th century.
Women employees--Diseases--United States.
Consumers' leagues--History.--United States
Employers' liability--United States--Case studies.
World War, 1914-1918--Women--United States.
World War, 1914-1918--War work--United States.
Biography & Autobiography--Women
History--Military--World War I
History--Women
Consumers' leagues.
Employers' liability.
Industrial hygiene.
Radium paint--Toxicology.
War work.
Women.
Occupational health and safety--History.--United States
Cooperative societies--History--United States
Industrial painters--Diseases--History.--United States
Radium--poisoning.
Radiation Injuries--history.
Occupational Diseases--history.
Occupational Exposure.
Women's Health.
United States.
HD6067.2.U6 / M66 2017
363.17990820973 Moo 9
170806
WN 610 / M822r 2017
The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore. - xvi, 479 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
"Originally published in 2016 in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK."--Title page verso. Includes reading group guide (pages 409-410).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-467) and index.
List of key characters -- Prologue -- Part one. Knowledge -- Part two. Power -- Part three. Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
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.
9781492649359 149264935X
2016040681
United States Radium Corporation.
Watch dial painters--Diseases--History.--United States
Radium paint--Toxicology.
Industrial hygiene--History--United States--20th century.
Women employees--Diseases--United States.
Consumers' leagues--History.--United States
Employers' liability--United States--Case studies.
World War, 1914-1918--Women--United States.
World War, 1914-1918--War work--United States.
Biography & Autobiography--Women
History--Military--World War I
History--Women
Consumers' leagues.
Employers' liability.
Industrial hygiene.
Radium paint--Toxicology.
War work.
Women.
Occupational health and safety--History.--United States
Cooperative societies--History--United States
Industrial painters--Diseases--History.--United States
Radium--poisoning.
Radiation Injuries--history.
Occupational Diseases--history.
Occupational Exposure.
Women's Health.
United States.
HD6067.2.U6 / M66 2017
363.17990820973 Moo 9
170806
WN 610 / M822r 2017