The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Book Name: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Author: Kate Moore
Publisher: Sourcebooks
ISBN-10: 149264935X,9781492649359
Year: 2017
Pages: 479
Language: English
File size: 15 MB
File format: EPUB,PDF

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women Pdf Book Description:

Radium was widely hailed as a fresh material after it was initially isolated by the Curies. It seemed to have an endless number of applications, among the very first of which was to create the numbers on clocks and clocks easier to view. The job was nice and social: the girls sat around tables painting, moistening the brushes in their mouths until they dipped them to the paint, conversing, eating, and drinking while they worked, occasionally taking additional paint house together to practice with, occasionally painting their teeth, faces, hair, and clothes to create them sparkly. If they left their clothes would be coated with radium dust, and might shine ghost-like at the evening. The pay was great and the job was simple, but some of the women began having odd pains in their own mouths and mouths. Their teeth could loosen up and drop out and their limbs, legs, and ankles will create permanent aches or perhaps snore.

After a number of those girls died and more became sick the firms making big profits on radium hurried to dismiss some sign that the job was dangerous. Their families sought assistance and relief, but discovered they were accountable to their particular mounting medical bills. The national, state, and local authorities all disavowed any obligation. The Curies’ recently discovered element of radium creates shiny headlines throughout the country since the new face of beauty, and wonder drug of the health care community.

Meanwhile, countless women toil beneath the luminous dust of their radium-dial factories. With such a coveted job, these”shining women” would be the luckiest living — until they start to fall strangely ill.

However, the factories which once offered golden chances are currently ignoring all promises of their gruesome side effects, and also the women’s cries of corruption. And as the deadly poison of this radium takes hold, the courageous shining women find themselves embroiled in one of the largest scandals of America’s early 20th century, also at a radical struggle for workers’ rights which will replicate for centuries ahead.

Composed with a dazzling voice and breakneck speed,The Radium Girlsfully illuminates the inspirational young girls exposed to this”miracle” material of radium, and also their awe-inspiring power in the face of nearly impossible conditions. Their guts and tenacity Resulted in life-changing regulations, research to atomic bombing, and finally saved hundreds of thousands of lives