Title The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore.

Publication Info.	Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
	©2017

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Simsbury Public Library - Large Print Materials	LARGE PRINT 363.1799 MOORE	DUE 04-30-24
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Edition	Large print edition.
Description	729 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium	large print rda
Series	Thorndike press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
	Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 719-726).
Contents	List of key characters -- Knowledge -- Power -- Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
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.
Local Note	New Britain Public Library copy does not have illustrations.
Subject	United States Radium Corporation.
	Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History.
	Radium paint -- Toxicology.
	Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History.
	Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Employers' liability -- United States -- Case studies.
	World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States.
	World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- United States.
	HISTORY / Military / World War I.
Genre/Form	Large type books.
Other Editions:	Reproduction of (manifestation): Moore, Kate (Writer and editor) Radium girls Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc., [2017] (DLC) 2016040681
ISBN	9781432839031 (hardcover)
	1432839039 (hardcover)

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