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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.
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The Radium Girls is a tragic tale of betrayal and courage. The young women who worked in the radium dial factories were betrayed by their employers, who knew of the dangers of radium but failed to take adequate precautions to protect their workers.
The Radium Girls tells the story of how radium poisoning influenced the lives of many young girls during the twentieth century and how their misfortune became a prime example of why companies need to try harder to protect the interests of their employees.
The legacy of the Radium Girls can’t be understated. Their case was among the first in which a company was held responsible for the health and safety of its employees, and it led to a variety of reforms as well as to the creation of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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.
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint.
