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Author Moore, Kate (Writer and editor), author.

Title The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore.

Publisher Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2017]

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 Camden PL Times  The Times 363.17 Moo    AVAILABLE  
 Auburn PL Business & Work 2nd FL  HD 6067.2 .U6 M66 2017    AVAILABLE  
 Augusta SD Cony nonfiction  363.17 MOO    AVAILABLE  
 Bailey Social Sciences  363.17 MOORE    AVAILABLE  
 Baxter ML Adult NF  363.17 Mor    AVAILABLE  
 Belfast Non Fiction  363.17 MOO    AVAILABLE  
 Brewer Adult Nonfiction  363.17 Moore    DUE 04-09-24  
 Curtis ML Adult Non Fiction  363.1799 Moore rad 2017    AVAILABLE  
 Ellsworth PL Non-Fiction  363.17 Moo    IN REPAIR  
 Freeport Nonfiction  363.17 Moo    AVAILABLE  

Physical Description xvi, 479 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note "Originally published as: The Radium Girls : they paid with their lives, their final fight was for justice, in 2016 in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK."
Summary The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes headline news. Girls who work in the radium-dial companies feel lucky until they begin to fall mysteriously ill. As the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History.
Radium paint -- Toxicology.
Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History.
Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States.
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- United States.