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Who were the Radium Girls?

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Who were the Radium Girls?

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The Radium Girls were a group of women who brought a suit against their employer, the United States Radium Corporation, in the 1920s. The women charged that dangerous working conditions in the Corporation’s New Jersey factory had exposed them to harmful radiation, leading to sickness. The girls ultimately won their suit, laying the groundwork for future individual suits about working conditions, and capturing the attention of the American public. Members of this group worked at the factory between 1917 and the mid-1920s. They were employed to paint watch dials with a luminous radium-based paint. Tellingly, the company knew that radium was harmful, and it took steps to protect the chemists and researchers who formulated and compounded the paint. The women, however, worked with no protection at all, and they were assured that radium was perfectly safe. Many of the Radium Girls would paint their nails, teeth, and bodies with radium for fun, startling friends and family when the paint glow

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A link to the Wikipedia article on the Radium Girls is provided. A link is also provided to the imdb post on the 1987 documentary film “Radium City” which covers the particulars. This film is worth watching. It’s accurate, gritty.

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