![]() ![]() Their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease represents an important chapter in the history of modern health and labor policy. 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. 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. Radium girls, women and industrial health reform : 1910-1935 / Claudia Clark. 289 pagesIn 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. Author: Clark, Claudia Format: Book xii, 289 pages : illustrations. ![]() In the 1920s, several thousand young women in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Illinois were exposed to. Historian Clark (Central Michigan Univ.) analyzes the early efforts of reform-minded women to obtain recognition of radium poisoning, win compensation for its victims, and prevent future harm. 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. by Claudia Clark RELEASE DATE: July 31, 1997. ![]()
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