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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