Radium girls
(Graphic Novel)

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Weaver, E. K., letterer.
Hahnenberger, Ivanka, translator.
Published
Chicago, IL : Iron Circus Comics, [2022].
Status
Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor
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Published
Chicago, IL : Iron Circus Comics, [2022].
Format
Graphic Novel
Physical Desc
135 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English

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Translated from the French.
Description
A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story of the Radium Girls, who fought for their lives and for workers' rights after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918. It's 1918 in Orange, New Jersey, and everyone knows the "Ghost Girls." The proud holders of well-paying jobs at the local watch factory, these working-class young women gain their nickname from the fine dusting of glowing, radioactive powder that clings to their clothes after every shift painting watch dials. The soft, greenish glow even stains their lips and tongues, which they use to point the fine brushes used in their work. It's perfectly harmless... or so claims the watch manufacturer. When teeth start falling out, followed by jawbones, the dial painters become the unprepared vanguard on the frontlines of the burgeoning workers' rights movement. Desperate for compensation and acknowledgement from the company that has doomed them, the Ghost Girls must fight, not just for their own lives but the future of every woman to follow them.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Cy., Weaver, E. K., & Hahnenberger, I. (2022). Radium girls (First edition.). Iron Circus Comics.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Cy, 1990-, E. K., Weaver and Ivanka, Hahnenberger. 2022. Radium Girls. Iron Circus Comics.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Cy, 1990-, E. K., Weaver and Ivanka, Hahnenberger. Radium Girls Iron Circus Comics, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Cy, E. K. Weaver, and Ivanka Hahnenberger. Radium Girls First edition., Iron Circus Comics, 2022.

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