| Description |
13 audio discs (16 hr.) : CD, digital audio ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Read by Angela Brazil. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History -- Sound recordings.
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Radium paint -- Toxicology -- Sound recordings.
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Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History -- Sound recordings.
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Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sound recordings.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States -- Sound recordings.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- United States -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Brazil, Angela, narrator.
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| ISBN |
9781681684215 |
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1681684217 |
| Music No. |
11830890 |
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