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Alyssa Marie –
Every once in awhile, a book comes along that grips you right from the first few pages and doesn’t let go until long after it’s finished. For me, this was one of those books. Page after page, Kate Moore roped me into these womens’ lives, weaving me in and out of the lives of these women; lives that were changing day to day and moment to moment, from the joy of starting a new and lucrative job to the eventual, devastating impact their work took on their bodies. Not in a long time has a book moved me so much and stayed with me so strongly. I only just finished reading it and I feel compelled to start it over again for another ride.This book gave me literal nightmares, and yet, I couldn’t put it down. The ravages that radium poisoning wreaked on these women – women who are so like myself and many others that I know – I was horrified and disturbed. I cried for them and their families and raged over the injustices and ignorance of the time. I kept reminding myself that something like this couldn’t happen today (of course it still does, where corporations put profits ahead of people), but a lot of the progress that’s been made in that arena is due to the Radium Girls – women I’d never even known about until I got this book.I love historical novels, and this one felt both like a great fiction and a haunting documentary. I couldn’t believe that I’d never heard of these events before and feel that this should be required reading in schools. My fiancee is probably sick of my talking hi.
Rachel –
Psst! Hey. Hey, kid. You wanna get your feels *really* messed up? Here, read this!To start with, I’d like to say that this has been a subject of fascination for me since childhood. The first time I had heard about this was when I saw a documentary about it on the Discovery Channel. In fact, it might have been "Radium City", but it’s been so long ago now, that I couldn’t say if that was the exact one or not. Regardless, the subject completely spooked me. I was just a child of something between 6-8 years old. I was already terrified of radioactive materials anyway, but seeing that documentary gave me even more to be afraid of, especially considering we had clocks with glowing dials and numbers, and I had no way to know they weren’t painted with radium, particularly because most of those clocks were quite old and had been owned by my grandparents for decades, and possibly had been owned by my great-grandparents. The potential that they had radium dials was very possible.I saw this book and remembered the fear I felt watching the second hand on that old clock in the living room ticking away the minutes. And to know that real women had become so deathly ill from painting those things made everything so much more horrific.This author has put together a really awesome piece of work about this subject. Not only does she talk about the consequences of exposure to radium, but she really brings the women to life and gets us used to them. I felt like I knew these poor women, and.
ScarletM –
I wish there were ten stars available to rate this book.Kate Moore has done a masterful story bringing this tragic and pernicious chapter of American history to life thereby educating us all on the dial painters and the even present threat of corporate greed. I feel, after reading this book, that I am intimate friends with these remarkable women – so vivid is Ms Moore’s telling of their story. Just when you think it can’t get more horrifying on reads in the epilogue about the radium companies continuous negligence in cleaning up their industrial waste. How many more people died from radium-related illness long after the radium painters were dead? It’s harrowing to think about.This book is a reminder to ALL of us to never underestimate corporate greed – the radium companies of yesterday could very well be the pharm companies of today. Never trust, always investigate. I don’t live far from Orange, NJ, I feel so moved by this book, I might take a trip up there to find the graves of these brave women to show my respects and assure them they are not forgotten and thank them for fighting for justice not just for themselves but for ALL of us who need work protections.
Kindle Customer –
This book caught my attention as once worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. I had never heard about the Radium Girls but now I’m so grateful to them for their courage,determination and sacrifice that enabled me and thousands of my coworkers to be safely employed in a research facility where so many dangerous elements are commonplace. This book should be included in every science or women’s studies or US History curriculum. I was privileged to be acquainted with Glenn Seaborg who is mentioned in this book and who was Addis with the AEC. I also have a better of the role of OSHA. Don’t miss this book!
Kindle Customer –
I really did not know what to expect nor what I was in for with this story. Meticulously and passionately researched, this was obviously a labor of love for the author. Who knew that luminous clock faces were produced at such terrible human cost. While at times the writing and use of words seemed odd such as a woman “courting” her boyfriend and the somewhat shallow descriptions initially of the women, the story itself was extremely compelling. And it became more gripping as the ravages of radium poisoning affected each individual and the legal machinations grew more desperate. There certainly are parallels to corporate greed and outright lying and coverup in today’s business world. Radium was being sold as the miracle substance to give a healthy glow to the complexion and substantial benefits by drinking it in water. The girls ingested so much of it through twirling their tiny brushes with their lips as well as eating meals at their work stations, painting it on their nails and faces so they would shine and wearing it home in their hair, skin and clothes. It was not only the companies’ denial to radium’s harmful effects but legal, medical and public outcry against the unpopular facts. A seminal addition to the history of workplace safety standards andlegislation.
Miss T. –
A fascinating, emotional tale of the young women who worked painting luminous dials for watches, clocks and other mechanisms in the early 20th century. Some were as young as 14 years old when they began. They enjoyed the work and their co-workers but had no idea the element used in the paint, radium, was deadly. The book follows the lives, and deaths, of some of these early “dial-painters†and their suffering, as well as their battle against the company which knew the radium was deadly to but never told the workers, and refused taking responsibility all the way to the Supreme Court. It is thanks to these “radium girls†that we have occupational safety laws to protect us today. I found the book moving, and hard to put down.
Cynthia –
I am so glad I found this book! It is hard to believe that the women were exposed to radiation without being told by the companies they worked for and helped enrich. They suffered greatly and died young, many never knowing why. The book demonstrates why government oversight of the workplace is necessary. The radium watch dial firms virtually murdered and maimed hundreds of women and girls for many years, profiting from their work and viciously refusing to accept any responsibility. It is hard to believe the cruelty the women faced. Thanks to the ENGLISH author for revealing this indictment of AMERICAN companies that murdered for profit and got away with it.
Kindle Customer –
If I could give this book 4 1/2 stars, I would do so. Not because this is not a very interesting and well documented historical account, but is a bit wordy and could have been better edited to be more concise. The prologue communicates the theme and plot line of this account, and the reader knows the destination while still at the dock. Let’s just say that the story begins with the discovery of radium by Madam Curie, but the radioactive nature of the element remained unknown for years with considerably dire consequences to the painters of watch dials. The advance of hard information was painfully and disastrously slow until at last key investigators began to put the pieces together. The balance of the saga follows the legal resolution of this tragedy and ends with the disclosure of contemporary work place safety regulations germinated by this pre-World War I occurrence. An easy and interesting read, which one will have no difficulty finishing even though you know where you’re going.
esrclt –
One of the best books I have read in a long time! Telling the story of the Radium Girls from the standpoint of the girls/women who were victimized by corporate greed and their battle for their rights was wonderful. Kate Moore brought these brave women to light in a brilliant manner. I had trouble putting this book down and highly recommend it.
horsewoman –
This a very disturbing story of business selling out their workers for a profit. The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. It takes place in 1917 and forward in time. Dial painting was “the elite job for the poor working girls”; it paid more than three times the average factory job, and those lucky enough to land a position ranked in the top 5% of female workers nationally, giving the women financial freedom in a time of burgeoning female empowerment. Many of them were teenagers, with small hands perfect for the artistic work, and they spread the message of their new job’s appeal through their friend and family networks; often, whole sets of siblings worked alongside each other in the studio. The girls were instructed to slip their paintbrushes between their lips to make a fine point — a practice called lip-pointing, or a “lip, dip, paint routine. I myself had never heard of this but my husband who is an engineer and was familiar with this process. Soon they began to experience gruesome side effects, they began a race-against-time fight for justice that would forever change US labor laws. Unfortunately by 1922 they began to experience serious side-effects such as their jaws disinitegrating or aquiring sarcomas. Still the owners of these companines denied that this was related to their work. This is a book about Goliath vs David. Do yourself a favor read this book. It’s facinating in.