The radium girls
About this book
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.
Subjects
- adverse effects
- biography & autobiography / women
- case studies
- consumer organizations
- consumers' leagues
- consumers' leagues -- united states -- history
- diseases
- employers' liability
- history
- history / military / world war i.
- history / women
- industrial hygiene
- industrial hygiene -- united states -- history -- 20th century
- industrial toxicology
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:science=2017-06-11
- occupational health
- radium
- radium paint
- radium paint -- toxicology
- toxicology
- united states radium corporation
- war work
- watch dial painters
- watch dial painters -- diseases -- united states -- history
- women
- women employees
- women's health
- women, united states, history
- world war, 1914-1918
- world war, 1914-1918, united states
- world war, 1914-1918 -- war work -- united states
- world war, 1914-1918, women
- world war, 1914-1918 -- women -- united states
- world war i