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

Title The radium girls the dark story of America's shining women
Names Moore, Kate.
Book Number DB089743
Annotation Chronicle of the women employed during World War I as watch dial painters--requiring the use and ingestion of radium-laced paint--and their legal fight for compensation. Discusses the often gruesome physical deformities and pain the women experienced and their determination to receive justice. Commercial audiobook. 2016.
Length 1 online resource (audio (15 hours, 55 minutes))
Title Status Active
Local Subject Medium Length Book - MD
Women's Interest - WOM
History - HST
History - US - HUS
World War I (nonfiction) - WNF1
Adult Nonfiction - AN
War Stories - Nonfiction - WAN
History - US - 19th Century - HUN
History - Military - HIML
History - US - 20th Century - HUT
Social Sciences - 300
Greater than 10 hours - GR
Pandemic, epidemic, diseases - PANDE
LC Subject Consumers' leagues - United States - History
Industrial hygiene - United States - History - 20th century
Radium paint - Toxicology
Watch dial painters - Diseases - United States - History
World War, 1914-1918 - War work - United States
World War, 1914-1918 - Women - United States
Nonfiction
Talking books
Language English
Medium Digital Book
Released 2018
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2018
Original Publication Reissue of: Unabridged. Prince Frederick : HighBridge, 2017. 9781681684222
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