It is the powerful tale of a group of ordinary women from the Roaring Twenties, who themselves learned how to roar. And so, in the face of unimaginable suffering-in the face of death-these courageous women refused to accept their fate quietly, and instead became determined to fight for justice.ĭrawing on previously unpublished sources-including diaries, letters, and court transcripts, as well as original interviews with the women’s relatives- The Radium Girls is an intimate narrative account of an unforgettable true story. In 1945,1,000 women worked in a factory painting radium dials on watches, The incidence of bone cancer in these women up to 1975 was compared with that of 1,000 women who worked as telephone operators in 1945. Yet their employers denied all responsibility. The very thing that had made them feel alive-their work-was in fact slowly killing them: they had been poisoned by the radium paint. They were the radium girls.Īs the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses. The company called for women with nimble fingers to paint the dials and numbers onto watches in assembly-line fashion. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous-the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. The workers were told to paint numbers on watches and dials using camel hair brushes and a luminous radiant paint that glowed in the dark using the lip, dip. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply. Known as the 'Radium Girls,' these workers. Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Women painting alarm clock faces at the Ingersoll factory in January 1932. History, Politics, Women's Studies, Nonfictionġ917. Buy a cheap copy of Radium Girls: Women and Industrial. Radium Girls: The dark times of luminous watches.
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