TY  - SOUND
AU  - Moore,Kate
AU  - Brazil,Angela
TI  - The radium girls: [the dark story of America's shining women] 
SN  - 9781681684215
AV  - HD6067.2.U6 M66 2017ab
U1  - 363.17/990820973 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - [Minneapolis, Minnesota]
PB  - HighBridge Audio
KW  - Watch dial painters
KW  - Diseases
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Radium paint
KW  - Toxicology
KW  - Consumers' leagues
KW  - United states
KW  - Industrial hygiene
KW  - 20th century
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Women
KW  - War work
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Subtitle from container; Unabridged; Compact discs; In container (16 x 18 cm.); Read by Angela Brazil
N2  - In 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. 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
ER  -