The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore.
Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc., [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: xvi, 479 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781492649359
- 149264935X
- United States Radium Corporation
- World War (1914-1918)
- 1900-1999
- Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History
- Radium paint -- Toxicology
- Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Women employees -- Diseases -- United States
- Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History
- Employers' liability -- United States -- Case studies
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- United States
- Radium -- poisoning
- Radiation Injuries -- history
- Occupational Diseases -- history
- Women's Health
- 363.17/990820973 23
- HD6067.2.U6 M66 2017
- WN 610
- 2019 Lincoln Award Nominee
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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