Radium girls : women and industrial health reform, 1910-1935 / Claudia Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Claudia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watch dial painters--Diseases--United States--History.

Watch dial painters.

Radium paint--Toxicology.

Radium paint.

Consumers' leagues--United States--History.

Consumers' leagues.

Industrial hygiene--United States--History--20th century.

Industrial hygiene.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, [1997]

Summary:

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

Contents:

""Cover Page""; ""RADIUM Girls""; ""Copyright Page""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 WATCH ALICE GLOW""; ""2 THE UNKNOWN GOD""; ""3 SOMETHING ABOUT THAT FACTORY""; ""4 A “HITHERTO UNRECOGNIZED� OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD""; ""5 A DAVID FIGHTING THE GOLIATH OF INDUSTRIALISM""; ""6 IS THAT WATCH FAD WORTH THE PRICE?""; ""7 GIMME A GAMMA""; ""8 WE SLAPPED RADIUM AROUND LIKE CAKE FROSTING""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-280) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890864840

9780807860816

0807860816

OCLC:

45732589