The radium girls the dark story of America's shining women [LP]
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...
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Waterville, Maine :
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Large print edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Moore, Kate |c (Writer and editor), |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The radium girls : |b the dark story of America's shining women [LP] / |c Kate Moore. |
| 250 | |a Large print edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Waterville, Maine : |b Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, |c [2017] | |
| 300 | |a 729 pages ; |c 23 cm. | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a List of key characters -- Knowledge -- Power -- Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Watch dial painters |x Diseases |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Radium paint |x Toxicology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Consumers' leagues |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Industrial hygiene |z United States |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1914-1918 |x Women |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1914-1918 |x War work |z United States. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Large print books. |2 lcgft | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Oldham, Helen G. tribute. | |
| 775 | 0 | 8 | |i Reproduction of (manifestation): |a Moore, Kate |c (Writer and editor). |t Radium girls. |d Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc., [2017] |w (DLC) 2016040681 |
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