"Hope in another direction": compensation for work-related illness among women, 1900-1960--Part II.

This article examines compensation for work-related illness among women in the first sixty years of the twentieth century. Its first part (Vol. 15, No. 1) discussed women's experience in the employers' liability system and their workers' compensation claims for poisonings. Part II in this issue examines compensation for infectious diseases, principally tuberculosis; litigation involving lung disease produced by beryllium and asbestos; and women's workers' compensation claims for illnesses involving a mental component.