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The Radium Girls : the Dark Story of America's Shining Women.

By: Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc., 2017Copyright date: 2017Description: xvi, 479 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781492649359
  • 149264935X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.17/990820973 23
LOC classification:
  • HD6067.2.U6 M66 2017
NLM classification:
  • WN 610
  • 2019 Lincoln Award Nominee
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.
List(s) this item appears in: 2020 - 2021 New Titles
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab HD6067.2 .U6 .M66 2017 1 Available 50583020009043
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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.

2019 Lincoln Award Nominee

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