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Cheryl V. Schlesinger –
Kate Moore has written an exceptional book remembering and honoring a group of women known as the “Radium Girls†…a group of women who were exposed to radium in their work as dial painters starting in the early 1900’s thru both world wars. The effect of radiation is horrific, the agonies they and their families suffered horrific, the determination to obtain compensation and acknowledgement and the battles they fought for their loved ones, peers, and for justice makes this book one of the most moving and tremendous books I have ever read. It is moving beyond belief. It is so difficult to read of their suffering and yet harder to stomach was the attitude and actions of the companies where the girls were employed. Do not skip any part of this book as the epilogue, post note and author note just reaffirmed for me just how tremendously well Ms. Moore paid homage to these heroines! These amazing women deserve every page of this amazing work by Kate Moore and she in turn deserves our recognition for her excellent work! Read this book!
bookgal –
It was an opportunity to contribute to their families and gain independence, and the jobs paid well. The young women and girls who flock to the new jobs of painting numbers on watches, clock faces and military instruments with a luminous new product were considered to be the shining girls. But not all is so shiny for these early victims of industrial hazard.During the turn of the century, the Curies discovered the element of radium and it quickly became a ‘wonder’ product for everything: a cureall in medicine, a beauty aid and as a useful luminous paint for all those watches, clocks and instruments. What they didn’t know quite that early on was that it was also radioactive and would have heavy consequences once it invaded the body.And those young women who worked in the factories putting the faces on all those time and measurement devices would be the ones paying the cost as they dipped their fine paint brushes into the radium-laced paint, put them between their lips to shape into a point and then painted. Over and over for six days a week on hundreds of watch, clock and instrument faces. And slowly, they were being poisoned.This book tells the true and extremely maddening, sad story of the industry that offered them a bright future but then refused to warn them of the deadly danger. The company that fought them tooth and nail through the courts, refusing to admit that they knew they were signing the women’s death warrants and would not compensate them for the death sentence..
Monkey Mom –
I just got through reading Radium Girls based the the true story of the girls and women employed to paint watch dials in the early twentieth century with an exciting and new product, radium. Radium sparkled, glowed, and was thought to be good for your health. It was heralded as the worlds newest wonder!! One of the uses was to make watches and clocks easier to see because the radium made the dial light up in the dark. Girls as young as 14 were recruited to join in on the exciting new job opportunity. Girls and young women sat in rows with trays of watch dials with a crucible of radium. They were taught to moisten thin brushes in their mouthes before they dipped them into the paint. They even ate at their work benches. The radium dust would cover the workers and as they walked home at night the girls would actually GLOW. Every girl wanted in on the work as it was good pay and radium was said to be good for your health. Little did they know that the work they were doing was eventually going to lead to their own demise.This book is excellent and gives amazing historical background pertaining to the inauguration of workers compensation, liability, and medical advancements. It is definitely a very emotional charged book. I would highly recommend this book.
Conway Family –
In her author’s note, Kate Moore wrote "I wanted to walk in step with the women and describe each moment as though it was happening here and now. I hoped that, in this way, readers would be able to engage with the twists and turns of this decades-old history and to empathize with the individual radium girls. I wanted the women to feel like friends."I believe Ms. Moore has accomplished this wish. While reading the accounts of these ladies’ experiences, I could imagine knowing them myself; someone I went to church with, a friend of a relative, or just someone who lives down the block. I experienced the highs and lows, the triumphs and heartaches, as their bodies deteriorated from radium poisoning.To think of how long these women suffered, what they had to endure, and ultimately what their sacrifice has meant for the future safety and longevity of so many to come, is quite remarkable given how long their story has been relatively unknown. I am deeply appreciative to Ms. Moore for finally giving the Radium Girls a voice for the world to hear.
Karen A. Schleif –
The Radium Girls was a shocking story which would have seemed unbelievable if it was fiction, but is all the more horrifying because it is a true story of unbelievable suffering and corporate greed, made possible with the collusion of some doctors and scientists. This book was recommended to our book review club in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Columbia University by one of our radiobiologists. Radiobiologists make the study of radiation and its effect on humans and our world their life’s work. We have the Radium Girls to thank for all the strict laws, regulations, and Radiation Safety oversight that now protects those who work daily with radiation. Radiation, when used properly and applied with precision, can destroy tumors and tumor cells and save lives. Our patients are a testament to this.Our book club gave very high marks to Radium Girls, but some of the doctors felt the story was directed to a general audience and they would have preferred the inclusion of more real science about radium rather than so much of the in-depth, personal stories of those unfortunate girls. I, however, understood everything and learned much about the history of this product that I’m involved with every day. I’m thankful to these brave women who forced safety controls and regulations on our medical and corporate communities. You don’t need to work with radiation to become engrossed in this book, but for those of us who follow the Shining Women, this book really hits home.
Kindle Customer –
When I was a little girl, I had a Westclox clock with glowing dials. When I married, my husband and I were pretty poor, so we took from our respective homes what we could to furnish our apartment. One of them was the clock. My husband looked at it and said, “huh. it’s radioactive”. I didn’t think much about it. And it’s funny. I remember the jingle that went with the clock “When the sun goes down, the dial lights up!” Little did I know that those dials were the cause of so much sorrow, despair, suffering and pain endured by the “dial painters”. This is one fabulous book. Ms. Moore portrays these young women for who they were — energetic, vivacious and, sadly, naive and willing to believe that the material they worked with was harmless. I was deeply angered and shocked by the callousness of the owners of the companies that knew KNEW what was going on and simply shrugged their shoulders as if to say “so what?” Knowing what we know now about radium and the incredible health threat that it is, it is astounding to read about the ignorance of the scientific community and the struggle that the honest doctors had to lift that ignorance. It a book that you couldn’t put down. Thank you Ms. Moore for sharing their stories and following up with the impact of their experiences provided for the future, some from the grave. Well researched and documented with primary sources which tell the real story of these “ghost girls”. Great Kindle choice.
K. L Sadler –
Apparently there have been some other books written about these young women at the turn of the 20th century, who were exposed through their place of work to radium. This of course, is an element that we know now to be dangerous to work with. Actually, it became soon apparent to Marie Curie and her husband that radium was dangerous. They would carry rocks around in their pockets that contained radium, and soon their fingers would start to change colors because of constant exposure. But during the early 1900’s companies realized they could use radium to make things like dials and watches shine at night (in the dark), and during night time forays into battle, especially during World War I and II, this ability was invaluable for ships, for planes, for many different uses when people needed to see things at night.It became obvious much later on, during the 20’s and 30’s that companies knew the radium was dangerous…but they neglected to warn any of their workers of this danger. Most of their workers were female, and though some of the behavior of these companies was because they didn’t value the lives of their workers because they were female, some of it was simply because companies in general didn’t care about anything but their profits. Other books have illustrated this in talking about miners, and other groups who were misled (including asbestos workers) as to the danger of various chemicals and things used in workplace situations.I really enjoyed this story of Moore’s. She r.
Mercedes Rochelle –
Secure in today’s world of medical achievements, we sometimes forget how even during the last century, doctors were totally unprepared for modern dangers. This was especially true concerning the miracle of Radium in the 1920’s. It was touted as a cure-all, included in medicines for all sorts of ailments: “On sale were radium jockstraps and lingerie, radium butter, radium milk, radium toothpaste (guaranteeing a brighter smile with every brushing) and even a range of Radior cosmetics…†No wonder it made such a splash when used to paint numbers on watch faces; supply couldn’t keep up with demand. When the ladies were hired to paint the numbers with a proprietary mix of radium and other much less expensive compounds (pure radium sold for the equivalent of $2.2 million per gram), they clamored to be hired. Not only were they well paid (piecework), but it was glamorous to run around afterwards, glowing in the dark from powder that was absorbed in their clothes, skin, and hair. Since radium was deemed healthy, why not? In painting the numbers, they needed to apply the brush to their lips to keep the bristles sharp; the company took away any water or rags for that purpose; there was too much waste. All went well for a couple of years before health problems sprang up, and even so, it was nearly impossible to diagnose because the ailments manifested themselves in different ways. Sometimes it was limping and back problems, often mouth problems. It started to look suspicious when pulled.
Precise Disarray –
Great read. Wholly disturbing. Not for the faint of heart as you will learn about the horrible health problems that so many young women experienced- jaws falling apart, for one. I had originally read it when it first came out and I borrowed it from the library. I am keen on learning about radiation (and stories surrounding it) and this book came up as an option of interest. Excellent historical information. Absolutely disturbing, terrifying, sad, frustrating.. I feel so bad for all these girls and women who fought so hard to be taken seriously. Disgusting.It reads well, moves along fast, provides a wealth of information and detail that gives the reader a good learning experience. Unforgettable! Definitely held my interest from beginning to end.When I found out my husband has been wanting to read it, I purchased this paperback. Glad to have a copy to add to our home library.
John D. Cofield –
In the early twentieth century one of the best jobs young girls and women in America could have involved something exciting and brand new: radium. Sparkling, glowing, and beautiful, radium was also, according to the companies that employed these young women, completely harmless. A century later the truth about radium and its assorted isotopes is all too well known. In The Radium Girls Kate Moore tells the story of these young women, seemingly so fortunate, who were poisoned by the jobs they felt so lucky to have.Radium was widely heralded as a wondrous new substance after it was first isolated by the Curies. It appeared to have an infinite number of uses, one of the first of which was to make the numbers on clocks and watches easier to see. Workers were needed to coat the dials with radium paint, and the best and most efficient workers were women and girls, some as young as 14 or 15. The work was pleasant and sociable: the women sat around tables painting, moistening the thin brushes in their mouths before they dipped them into the paint, chatting, eating, and drinking while they worked, sometimes taking extra paint home with them to practice with, sometimes painting their teeth, faces, hair, and clothing to make them sparkly. When they left the studio their clothing would be covered with radium dust, and would glow ghost-like in the night. The pay was good and the work was easy, but then some of the women started having strange pains in their mouths and bones. Their teet.