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02915aam a2200373Mi 4500 001 A9604956A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 008 160628s2016 enkafc b 001 0 eng 020 $a 1471147576 020 $a 9781471147579 020 $a 1471153878 020 $a 9781471153877 035 $a (OCoLC)952546421 040 $a AU@ $b eng $c AU@ $e rda $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d STF $d SILO 050 4 $a HD6067.2 U6 M66 2016 100 1 $a Moore, Kate, $e author. 245 14 $a The radium girls : $b they paid with their lives, their final fight was for justice / $c Kate Moore. 260 $a London : $b Simon & schuster, $c 2016. 300 $a xiii, 465 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Machine generated contents note: pt. One Knowledge -- pt. Two Power -- pt. Three Justice. 520 $a Ordinary women in 1920s America. All they wanted was the chance to shine. Be careful what you wish for. 'The first thing we asked was, "Does this stuff hurt you?" And they said, "No." The company said that it wasn't dangerous, that we didn't need to be afraid.' 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls. As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses. The very thing that had made them feel alive - their work - was in fact slowly killing them: they had been poisoned by the radium paint. Yet their employers denied all responsibility. And so, in the face of unimaginable suffering - in the face of death - these courageous women refused to accept their fate quietly, and instead became determined to fight for justice. Drawing on previously unpublished sources - including diaries, letters and court transcripts, as well as original interviews with the women's relatives - The Radium Girls is an intimate narrative account of an unforgettable true story. It is the powerful tale of a group of ordinary women from the Roaring Twenties, who themselves learned how to roar. 650 0 $a Watch dial painters $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Radium paint $x Toxicology. 650 0 $a Consumers' leagues $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Industrial hygiene $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Women $z United States. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x War work $z United States. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220506014819.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211015342.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A9604956A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search