TY  - GEN
T1  - Radium girls, women and industrial health reform : 1910-1935
A1  - Clark, Claudia, 1973-
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm45732589
AB  - In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark's book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea that the tedious task of dialpainting was any different from the other factory jobs available to them. But after repeated exposure to the radium-laced paint, they began to develop mysterious, often fatal illnesses that they traced to conditions in the workplace. Their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease represents an important chapter in the history of modern health and labor policy. Clark's account emphasizes the social and political factors that influenced the responses of the workers, managers, government officials, medical specialists, and legal authorities involved in the case. She enriches the story by exploring contemporary disputes over workplace control, government intervention, and industry-backed medical research. Finally, in appraising the dialpainters' campaign to secure compensation and prevention of further incidents -- efforts launched with the help of the reform-minded, middle-class women of the Consumers' League -- Clark is able to evaluate the achievements and shortcomings of the industrial health movement as a whole"--Page 4 of cover
OP  - 289
CN  - HD6067.2.U6
SN  - 9780807846407
SN  - 0807846406
SN  - 0807860816
SN  - 9780807860816
SN  - 0807823317
SN  - 9780807823316
KW  - Watch dial painters : Diseases : United States : History.
KW  - Radium paint : Toxicology.
KW  - Consumers' leagues : United States : History.
KW  - Industrial hygiene : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Radium paint.
KW  - Industrial hygiene.
KW  - Consumers : United States.
KW  - Consumer Organizations : history
KW  - Occupational Health : history
KW  - Radium : adverse effects
KW  - United States
KW  - Peintres de cadrans (Horlogerie) : Maladies : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Peinture au radium : Toxicologie.
KW  - Consommateurs : États-Unis : Associations : Histoire.
KW  - Hygiène industrielle : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Peintres de cadran (Horlogerie) : Maladies : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Peinture au radium.
KW  - Consommateurs : États-Unis.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Industrial Health & Safety.
KW  - Consumers' leagues
KW  - Industrial hygiene
KW  - Radium paint : Toxicology
KW  - Arbeiterin
KW  - Strahlenschaden
KW  - Arbeitsschutz
KW  - Radium
KW  - USA
KW  - Vrouwenarbeid.
KW  - Beroepsziekten.
KW  - Radium.
KW  - Uurwerkindustrie.
KW  - Radium : Industrie et commerce : États-Unis : 20ème siècle.
KW  - Femmes : Travail : États-Unis : 20ème siècle.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Geschichte 1910-1935.
KW  - History
ER  -