Name: Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935 (en Inglés)
Price: 56980.00 CLP
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Author: Claudia Clark
ISBN: 9780807846407

portada Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

The University Of North Carolina Press

Autor

Claudia Clark

Año

1997

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

1.10

ISBN

0807846406

ISBN13

9780807846407

N° edición

Categorías

Arbitraje y negocioación
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Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935 (en Inglés)

Claudia Clark (Autor) · The University Of North Carolina Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.