| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-280) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History.
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Watch dial painters. |
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Diseases. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Radium paint -- Toxicology.
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Radium paint -- Toxicology. |
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Radium paint. |
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Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History.
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Consumers' leagues. |
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Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Industrial hygiene. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Radium -- adverse effects. |
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Consumer Organizations -- history. |
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Occupational Health -- history. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1910-1935 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Clark, Claudia. Radium girls, women and industrial health reform. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 1997 0807823317 (DLC) 96027358 (OCoLC)35151143 |
| ISBN |
0807860816 (electronic book) |
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9780807860816 (electronic book) |
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0807823317 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807846406 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807823316 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807846407 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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