The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women
(Audiobook CD)
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Contributors
Published
[Minneapolis, MN] : HighBridge Audio, [2017].
Format
Audiobook CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Status
Port Angeles - Talking Books
AUDBK 363.1799 MOORE
1 available
AUDBK 363.1799 MOORE
1 available
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Audiobooks.
Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History.
Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Radium paint -- Toxicology.
Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History.
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- United States.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States.
Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History.
Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Radium paint -- Toxicology.
Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History.
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- United States.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States.
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Published
[Minneapolis, MN] : HighBridge Audio, [2017].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
13 audio discs (16 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
9781681684215
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 8.1, 21 Points
Level 8.1, 21 Points
Notes
General Note
Title from web page.
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Angela Brazil.
Description
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.