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. Their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease represents an important chapter in the history of modern health and labor policy. 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. Watch Alice glow: the New Jersey radium dialpainters - The unknown God: radium, research, and businesses - Something about that factory: the dialpainters and the Consumers' League - A "hitherto unrecognized" occupational hazard: the discovery of radium poisoning - A David fighting the Goliath of industrialism: compensation in New Jersey and Connecticut - Is that watch fad worth the price?: industrial radium poisoning and federal courts and agencies - Gimme a gamma: iatrogenic radium poisoning - We slapped radium around like cake frosting: dialpainting in Illinois. Radium-Industrie et commerce-âEtats-Unis-20ème siècle įemmes-Travail-âEtats-Unis-20ème siècle
Industrial hygiene-United States-History-20th century
Watch dial painters-Diseases-United States-History Ĭonsumers' leagues-United States-History
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