

Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. She enriches the story by exploring contemporary disputes over workplace control, government intervention, and industry-backed medical research. Claudia Clarks book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea. 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. Claudia Clarks book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had.

Their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease represents an important chapter in the history of modern health and labor policy. Radium Girls: Women And Industrial Health Reform, 1910 1935 Claudia Clark, History Of Nebraska 2 Ed.James C. Radium girls, women and industrial health reform : 1910-1935-PRINTBOOK. 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. 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. Radium Girls, Women and Industrial Health Reform.
