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The Radium Girls

the Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Jul 29, 2017EmilyEm rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This truly dark story of 1920s businesses who employed young women as dial painters using glowing radium paint without knowledge of its long-term consequences and who then covered up or denied fault as the women developed ghastly illnesses and died. Moore’s book is thorough in its research, but tough going as the grim consequences of the work are detailed in case after case. Good epilogue. Recommended for serious history readers. Nothing like reading 'The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II,' women who benefitted from the health and safety precautions that resulted from the Radium Girls court cases.