The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women

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

Summary: 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.

Item details

ISBN: 9781492649359
ISBN: 149264935X
Physical Description: print
regular print
xvi, 479 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc., [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"Originally published in 2016 in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK."--Title page verso. Includes reading group guide (pages 409-410).
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-467) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	List of key characters -- Prologue -- Part one. Knowledge -- Part two. Power -- Part three. Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
Awards Note:	2019 Lincoln Award Nominee

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