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Learn about the female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials in the early 20th century. Find out how they fought for justice, how radium was used, and what were the effects of radium exposure.
The women hired to paint dials came to be known as “ghost girls” because the radium dust to which they were exposed daily made their clothes, hair, and skin literally glow. Many of the women wore their best dresses on the job so the fabric would shine brilliantly when they went dancing after work.
Radium Girls: Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler. With Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd. In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work conditions after some of their colleagues become ill from radium exposure.
6 Απρ 2023 · Learn how hundreds of women were exposed to lethal amounts of radium while painting watch faces in early 20th-century America. Discover how they fought for justice and compensation for their devastating health consequences.
She was among the women who painted luminous numbers on watch, clock, and instrument dials using radium-laced paint in factories in New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut. Dubbed “Radium Girls” and “Living Dead,” they suffered radium poisoning and painful, early deaths.
Radium Girls is a drama film based on the true story of women who worked at American Radium and suffered from radium poisoning. The film follows the sisters Bessie and Jo Cavallo, who fight for justice and expose the dangers of radium in the 1920s.
Early in the 20th century, women work at the U.S. Radium Factory, painting glow in the dark watches, unaware of the dangers of working with radium.
