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Author Clark, Claudia, 1973-

Title Radium girls, women and industrial health reform : 1910-1935 / Claudia Clark
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : illustrations
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 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"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-280) and index
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Subject Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History
Radium paint -- Toxicology
Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History
Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Radium paint.
Industrial hygiene.
Consumers -- United States.
Consumer Organizations -- history
Occupational Health -- history
Radium -- adverse effects
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Health & Safety.
Consumers' leagues
Industrial hygiene
Radium paint -- Toxicology
Arbeiterin
Strahlenschaden
Arbeitsschutz
Radium
Vrouwenarbeid.
Beroepsziekten.
Radium.
Uurwerkindustrie.
Radium -- Industrie et commerce -- États-Unis -- 20ème siècle.
Femmes -- Travail -- États-Unis -- 20ème siècle.
United States
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96027358
ISBN 0807860816
9780807860816