01862cam a2200325 i 4500 1072852923 TxAuBib 20231212120000.0 170626s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017022396 9781432839031 large print : hardcover $32.99 1432839039 large print : hardcover $32.99 (OCoLC)983826134 TxAuBib rda Moore, Kate, author Radium girls. The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2017] 729 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction Includes bibliographical references. List of key characters -- Knowledge -- Power -- Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript. As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive -- until they began to fall mysteriously ill. As the fatal poison of the radium took hold, they found themselves embroiled in one of America's biggest scandals and a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights. 20231212. Large type books. Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.