Radium Girls, Women and Industrial Health Reform: 1910-1935In 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 |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Watch Alice Glow The New Jersey Radium Dialpainters | 12 |
The Unknown God Radium Research and Businesses | 39 |
Something about That Factory The Dialpainters and the Consumers League | 65 |
A Hitherto Unrecognized Occupational Hazard The Discovery of Radium Poisoning | 87 |
A David Fighting the Goliath of Industrialism Compensation in New Jersey and Connecticut | 112 |
Is That Watch Fad Worth the Price? Industrial Radium Poisoning and Federal Courts and Agencies | 149 |
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Page 268 - Workmen's Compensation: The New Jersey Experience. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1960.