Radium girls, women and industrial health reform : 1910-1935 /
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...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
1997.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41308 |
Table of Contents:
- Watch Alice Glow The New Jersey Radium Dialpainters
- The Unknown God Radium, Research, and Businesses
- Something about That Factory The Dialpainters and the Consumers' League
- A "Hitherhto Unrecognized" Occupational Hazard The Discovery of Radium Poisoning
- A David Fighting Goliath of Industrialism Compensation in New Jersey and Connecticut
- Is That Watch Fad Worth The Price? Industrial Radium Poisoning and Federal Courts and Agencies
- Gimme a Gamma Iatrogenic Radium Poisoning
- We Slapped Radium Around Like Cake Frosting Dialpainting in Illinois
- Conclusion.