| International Standard Book Number |
9781492649359
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| International Standard Book Number |
149264935X
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
363.17/990820973 23
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| Personal Name |
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor), author.
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| Title Statement |
The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc., [2017]
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| Physical Description |
xvi, 479 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| General Note |
Includes reading group guide (pages 409-410).
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-467) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
List of key characters -- Prologue -- Part one. Knowledge -- Part two. Power -- Part three. Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
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| Summary, Etc. |
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.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Watch dial painters Diseases History. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Radium paint Toxicology.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Consumers' leagues History. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Industrial hygiene History 20th century. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1914-1918 Women United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1914-1918 War work United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
HISTORY / Military / World War I. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
HISTORY / Women. bisacsh
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