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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (2017) is a cultural history of radium by English author Kate Moore. The book focuses on a series of court cases in which young women, ravaged by the effects of radium, took on powerful radium companies in court.
Complete summary of Kate Moore's The Radium Girls. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Radium Girls.
The Radium Girls is a heart-wrenching tale of betrayal, courage, and the fight for justice. Chapter 1: The Lure of Radium. The book begins by introducing the readers to the radium craze that swept across America in the 1920s.
2 Μαΐ 2017 · Radium Girls is a shocking, heartbreaking story of corporate greed and denial, and the strength of the human spirit in face of it. To read it is to honor these women who unwittingly sacrificed their lives but whose courage to stand up and be heard speaks to us from the grave.
Learn how radium poisoning affected the lives of young women who painted watches in the twentieth century. This book summary by Kate Moore reveals the history, the legal battles, and the lessons of the radium girls.
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore unravels the harrowing story of the women who painted radium-infused watch dials and suffered life-altering radiation poisoning. The summary follows their naive handling of the toxic substance, the gradual onset of horrific symptoms, and their David-and-Goliath legal battles against corporate deception.
27 Απρ 2017 · Kate Moore's account of the sufferings and struggles of the Radium Girls — factory workers who were poisoned by the glowing radium paint they worked with — reads like a true crime narrative.
