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Radium girls : women and industrial health reform, 1910-1935

Title: Radium girls : women and industrial health reform, 1910-1935 / Claudia Clark.
Author: Clark, Claudia.
Publication: Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, [1997], ©1997.

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xii, 289 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-280) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Watch Alice Glow: The New Jersey Radium Dialpainters -- Ch. 2. The Unknown God: Radium, Research, and Businesses -- Ch. 3. Something about That Factory: The Dialpainters and the Consumers' League -- Ch. 4. A "Hitherto Unrecognized" Occupational Hazard: The Discovery of Radium Poisoning -- Ch. 5. A David Fighting the Goliath of Industrialism: Compensation in New Jersey and Connecticut -- Ch. 6. Is That Watch Fad Worth the Price? Industrial Radium Poisoning and Federal Courts and Agencies -- Ch. 7. Gimme a Gamma: Iatrogenic Radium Poisoning -- Ch. 8. We Slapped Radium Around Like Cake Frosting: Dialpainting in Illinois.

ISBN

0807823317 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807846406 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

96027358

OCLC

ocm35151143

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Columbia University Libraries