03092cam a2200445 4500 526067308 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807860816 0807860816 B00ZVEB7MU Amazon c4d748bd-58ac-471a-84b0-cf5db8123868 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3346695 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Clark, Claudia. Radium Girls [Libby] : Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Public Health. dialpainting. Consumers' League. watch faces. radium poisoning. luminous paint. industrial disease. instrument dials. health and labor policy. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2114kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2114kB. Sociology. Technology. Women's Studies. Nonfiction. 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 disease represents an important chapter in the history of modern health and labor policy. Clark's account emphasizes the social and political factors that influenced the responses of the workers, managers, government officials, medical specialists, and legal authorities involved in the case. She enriches the story by exploring contemporary disputes over workplace control, government intervention, and industry-backed medical research. Finally, in appraising the dialpainters' campaign to secure compensation and prevention of further incidents—efforts launched with the help of the reform-minded, middle-class women of the Consumers' League—Clark is able to evaluate the achievements and shortcomings of the industrial health movement as a whole. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c4d748bd-58ac-471a-84b0-cf5db8123868&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c4d748bd-58ac-471a-84b0-cf5db8123868&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c4d748bd-58ac-471a-84b0-cf5db8123868&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)