TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moore,Kate
TI  - The radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women 
SN  - 9781492649359
AV  - HD6067.2.U6 M66 2017
U1  - 363.17/990820973 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Naperville, Illinois
PB  - Sourcebooks, Inc.
KW  - United States Radium Corporation
KW  - Watch dial painters
KW  - Diseases
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Radium paint
KW  - Toxicology
KW  - Industrial hygiene
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women employees
KW  - Consumers' leagues
KW  - Employers' liability
KW  - Case studies
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Women
KW  - War work
KW  - Consumer panels
KW  - history
KW  - Occupational Health
KW  - Radium
KW  - adverse effects
KW  - Women's Health
KW  - World War I
KW  - Scandals
KW  - fast
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
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