001 2016040681
003 DLC
010 -- $a 2016040681
020 -- $a 9781492649359
$q hardcover
082 00 $a 363.17/990820973
092 -- $a 363.179
100 1- $a Moore, Kate
$e author.
$4 aut
245 14 $a The radium girls
$b the dark story of America's shining women
$c written by Kate Moore
250 -- $a 1st ed.
264 -1 $a Naperville, Illinois
$b Sourcebooks, Inc.
$c 2017
300 -- $a 479 pages
$b illustrations (some color)
$c 24 cm
336 -- $a text
$b txt
$2 rdacontent
337 -- $a unmediated
$b n
$2 rdamedia
338 -- $a volume
$b nc
$2 rdacarrier
500 -- $a Includes reading group guide, pages 409-410.
505 0- $a Pt. 1. Knowledge -- Pt. 2. Power -- Pt. 3. 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. The Radium Girls explores the strength of extraordinary women in the face of almost impossible circumstances and the astonishing legacy they left behind.
650 -0 $a Watch dial painters
$x Diseases
$z United States
$x History
650 -0 $a Radium paint
$x Toxicology
650 -0 $a Industrial Hygiene
$z United States
$x History
$y 20th century