TY - BOOK AU - Moore,Kate TI - The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women SN - 9781492649359 AV - HD6067.2.U6 M66 2017 U1 - 363.17/990820973 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Naperville, Illinois PB - Sourcebooks, Inc. KW - Watch dial painters KW - Diseases KW - United States KW - History KW - Radium paint KW - Toxicology KW - Consumers' leagues KW - United states KW - Industrial hygiene KW - 20th century KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Women KW - War work N1 - "Originally published in 2016 in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK."--Title page verso; Includes reading group guide (pages 409-410); Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-467) and index; List of key characters -- Prologue -- Part one. Knowledge -- Part two. Power -- Part three. Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript N2 - 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 ER -