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Radium halos : a novel about the Radium Dial painters / by Stout, Shelley.(CARDINAL)787932;

"In the summer of 1923 when Helen Waterman is 16 years old, she and her sister Violet leave their home in Belmont, North Carolina, to work at the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois. No one could have foreseen the lethal dangers awaiting them"--P. [4] of cover.

Subjects: Novels.; Radium Dial Company; Watch dial painters; Radium paint;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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The only harmless great thing / by Bolander, Brooke,author.(CARDINAL)677617;

Early in the twentieth century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time an Indian elephant was deliberately and publicly put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are matters of historical fact. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and wrongs crying out to be righted. Brace yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling cruelties both grand and petty while searching for meaning and justice.

Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Science fiction.; Novels.; Radium paint; Watch dial painters; Elephants; Radiation; Toxicology; Electrocution;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Radium girls, women and industrial health reform : 1910-1935 / by Clark, Claudia.(CARDINAL)211221;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-280) and index.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 "hitherto unrecognized" occupational hazard: the discovery of radium poisoning -- A David fighting the 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."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.1410L

Subjects: Watch dial painters; Radium paint; Consumers' leagues; Industrial hygiene;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Glow / by Bryant, Megan E.,author.(CARDINAL)347467;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256).Julie investigates the origins of antique paintings with glowing images that she found in a thrift store and discovers the story of a group of young women artists, the Radium Girls, who used radioactive paint to create the world's first glow-in-the-dark products.810L

Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Families; Painting; Radiation; Factories; Sisters; Letters; Watch dial painters; Radium paint; World War, 1914-1918;

Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9

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The radium girls [large print] : the dark story of America's shining women / by Moore, Kate(Writer and editor),author.(CARDINAL)340495;

Includes bibliographical references.A full-length account of the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to dangerous levels of radium while working factory jobs during World War I describes how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Large print books.; Watch dial painters; Radium paint; Consumers' leagues; Industrial hygiene; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;

Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10

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The radium girls [sound recording] : the dark story of America's shining women / by Moore, Kate(Writer and editor),author.(CARDINAL)340495; Brazil, Angela(Angela Kay),narrator.(CARDINAL)344791;

Read by Angela Brazil.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.Compact discs.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Watch dial painters; Radium paint; Consumers' leagues; Industrial hygiene; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;

Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 13

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The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / by Moore, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)435459;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-467) and index.Pt. 1. Knowledge -- Pt. 2. Power -- Pt. 3. Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript."The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" are the luckiest alive - until they begin to fall mysteriously ill. But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women's cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come." --980LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Watch dial painters; Radium paint; Consumers' leagues; Industrial hygiene; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;

Available copies: 65 / Total copies: 87

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The radium girls : the scary but true story of the poison that made people glow in the dark / by Moore, Kate(Writer and editor),author.(CARDINAL)340495;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Now adapted for young readers! The incredible true story of the young women exposed to the "wonder drug" radium and their struggle for justice"--Knowledge. First day ; Wartime warning ; All change ; The mysterious maladies of Mollie Maggia ; Girls wanted ; Mere coincidence? ; Radium games ; Strange symptoms ; "Something going on" ; Investigations underway ; Warning shots ; Lip, dip, paint ; Truth and lies ; Hoffman helps ; Making history ; Hope -- Power. The list of the doomed ; Dead end ; Until death do us part ; Make or break ; "Fraud of frauds" ; In the shadow of the church spire ; Back from the grave ; The trial of the decade ; On the stand ; "Far from finished in this fight" ; Settlement? ; The chill of fear ; Happy ending? ; Midnight machinations ; A cold, cold winter ; Time-bomb tumors ; A very big mistake ; The end of the adventure ; Brave until the last -- Justice. Conspiracy? ; "Very suspicious" ; Verdict ; Fighting back ; A desire for justice ; Legal champion ; A long and lonely fall ; Her day in court ; Too weak for tears ; Bedside hearing ; The society of the living dead ; One more day.880LAges 8 and up.Accelerated Reader ARA Junior Library Guild selection

Subjects: Case studies.; Watch dial painters; Radium paint; Consumers' leagues; Industrial hygiene; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; Women employees; Employers' liability;

Available copies: 22 / Total copies: 26

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Radium girls / by Cy,1990-author,artist.; Hahnenberger, Ivanka,translator.(CARDINAL)346235; Weaver, E. K.,letterer.(CARDINAL)610455;

A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story of the Radium Girls, who fought for their lives and for workers' rights after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918. It's 1918 in Orange, New Jersey, and everyone knows the "Ghost Girls." The proud holders of well-paying jobs at the local watch factory, these working-class young women gain their nickname from the fine dusting of glowing, radioactive powder that clings to their clothes after every shift painting watch dials. The soft, greenish glow even stains their lips and tongues, which they use to point the fine brushes used in their work. It's perfectly harmless... or so claims the watch manufacturer. When teeth start falling out, followed by jawbones, the dial painters become the unprepared vanguard on the frontlines of the burgeoning workers' rights movement. Desperate for compensation and acknowledgement from the company that has doomed them, the Ghost Girls must fight, not just for their own lives but the future of every woman to follow them.

Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Nonfiction comics.; United States Radium Corporation; Industrial hygiene; Radium paint; Watch dial painters; Women employees; World War, 1914-1918;

Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9

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The radium girls [sound recording] : the scary but true story of the poison that made people glow in the dark / by Moore, Kate(Writer and editor),author.(CARDINAL)340495; Sands, Xe,narrator.(CARDINAL)356794;

Read by Xe Sands.Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of young women spend their days hard at work painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The painters consider themselves lucky, until they start suffering from a mysterious illness. As the corporations try to cover up a shocking secret, these shining girls suddenly find themselves at the center of a deadly scandal.

Subjects: Case studies.; Children's audiobooks.; Watch dial painters; Radium paint; Consumers' leagues; Industrial hygiene; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; Women employees; Employers' liability;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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