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Title The Radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore.
Author Moore, Kate, author.
Publisher Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Description xvi, 479 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
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 EI-Adult Collection  363.1799 MOO Nearby on shelf  30626003147770 09-28-23  AVAILABLE
Note "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.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
NOTE Accelerated Reader UG 8.1 21 196201
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. The Radium Girls explores the strength of extraordinary women in the face of almost impossible circumstances and the astonishing legacy they left behind.
Audience 980L Lexile
Subject Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History.
Radium paint -- Toxicology.
Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History.
Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States.
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- United States.
Other title Dark story of America's shining women
ISBN 9781492649359
149264935X