The Radium Girls
The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The young factory women poisoned by the luminous paint they were told to lick, and their fight to be believed.
In the 1910s and 20s, young women painted watch dials with glowing radium paint and were instructed to point the brushes with their lips. When they began to sicken, and their jaws to disintegrate, their employers denied everything. Kate Moore tells the story through the women themselves and the landmark legal fight they waged while dying. It was an Our Shared Shelf pick for May 2018.
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Emma Watson
Book Club · May 2018
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