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The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women

2017

Title:	The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore.
Format:	Book
Author:	Moore, Kate (Writer and editor), author.
Publisher, Date:	Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc., [2017] ©2017
Copyright:	©2017
Description:	xvi, 479 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary:	A full-length account of the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to dangerous levels of radium while working factory jobs during World War I describes how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights.
Subjects:	United States Radium Corporation. Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History. Radium paint -- Toxicology. Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History. 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.

Notes:	"Originally published as: The Radium Girls : they paid with their lives, their final fight was for justice, 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.

LCCN:	2016040681
ISBN:	9781492649359 (hardcover) 149264935X (hardcover)
Other Number:	956341099
Control Number:	3509396

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