She enriches the story by exploring contemporary disputes over workplace control, government intervention, and industry-backed medical research. 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. Their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease represents an important chapter in the history of modern health and labor policy. 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.
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. Radium Girls : Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935 by Claudia Clark (1997, Trade Paperback, New Edition) 3 product ratings About this product Brand new 48.75 Pre-owned 7.15 Stock photo Brand new: Lowest price 48. Browse their picks for the best books about philosophy, extraterrestrial life, and World War 1.
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. 8,000+ authors have recommended their favorite books and what they love about them.
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