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Genre:Action & Adventure
Platform:Sega Genesis
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elainehh –
There was a time when the public did not know that radium could be poisonous to the body. In fact, some people were using it as a health aide. But some scientists who knew the dangers did not warn the radium watch dial workers, because the companies in NJ and Illinois were too busy reaping the profits and would not allow it. Instead, this particular company that was making radium dial watches encouraged their young workers to point tip with their lips the paint brushes before painting the radium on the watch dial. This went on for many years until workers started to show frightening health symptoms. There were no lawyers to take on the girls’ cases. The author, a British woman, wrote detailed medical histories of the young workers and how radium affected their health and their lives. The book is intense but enlightening to those of us who never heard of these occurences: a part of American history that can reveal how industry greed can impact workers.
Karen G. –
This was an amazing story told about innocent girls who believed they were using a “paint” that was “safe.” What these young women suffered and eventually died for was to make the working world safer for all of us. At times the horror of what was happening to their bodies seemed endless only to be compounded by the calous denial of the company management for which they had worked. The book was well researched and the author has done a fine job telling the stories from their view point. It is difficult to keep all the names straight but read beyond that; it will all come together in the end. Read this book you will have a different view on radio active materials in our everyday life and the safety around it today.
Joanna D. –
Workplace hazards and death are nothing new; the Industrial Revolution ushered in new illnesses like Brown Lung caused by cotton dust, children worked in factories were routinely maimed and in this case, women were used to paint radium dials on watch faces and military instruments; women because their patience and deftness of hand could do the tiny numbers and lines with a 30-hair brush. Men often cannot, because their stronger heartbeat makes their hands more unsteady. So women got very good paying piecework jobs, painting with “Undark” paint and pointing those tiny brushes with their lips to get a fine point. Despite some evidence known by Pierre and Marie Curie and other scientists who literally lost fingers and ultimately life to radiation poisoning, industrial plants turned a blind eye to the health hazards. Even when it became obvious that radium was absorbed into bones like its relative calcium, they denied and tried to prevent recompense to the women who were dying, in the 20’s, horribly.Like the matchworkers in England, teeth rotted in jaws, jawbones literally died and could be extracted by the dentist along with molars. The women had horrible bone pain and some developed swiftly-moving cancers.The story of how they fought back is pretty grim. Were the factory owners less likely to yield because women are less powerful and young, unmarried women the least powerful of all? You decide.I took one star off as the material is “spun out” and the book longer than it needs t.
Alyssa Less –
There are no words. So many emotions swirled through my head while reading The Radium Girls. I celebrated in their triumphs, cried through their pain, suffering and death, and was angered by the injustice of it all. On top of that, half of this story took place only a few miles from where I reside, in Orange, New Jersey. I never knew that people could have a flippant view on human life.Let me start by saying there is a lot of grotesque imagery in The Radium Girls. Their symptoms of radium poisoning are explained in great detail, and may not be suitable for most readers. I, on the other hand, thought I could get through it. And I did, but not without feeling some serious despair for the suffering of these women and hatred for those responsible.During WWI, radium was used in minuscule amounts as paint for clock and instrument dials for wartime. The radium in the paint allowed for these dials to glow in the dark. The job of radium dial painters was a lucrative one: single young women could make some serious cash in this position. Unbeknownst to the whole world, radium was a hazardous material that would ruin these girls’ lives. They were slowly, over time, ingesting small quantities of radium, which we now know to be highly toxic to the body.This was a highly addicting read. I had trouble putting the book down. The fact that Radium Girls read like fiction made it so much easier to understand the seriousness of this crisis. Kate Moore could have gone with a more medical or legal.
Penelopepilks13 –
If only the women were shown this level of respect in their lifetimes. Their story shines from the pages and is horrifyingly relevant to today. We owe these ladies an enormous debt and it our duty to see it is repaid by never allowing it to be repeated.
Harleyman,0911 –
What a remarkable story and so very well told. When I started this book, I had expected to read a very sanitized story about a few girls involved in the dial painting business. What I quickly began to understand was a complete story of the hundreds of girls involved in the dial painting business ….. their lives, joys, accomplishments, tradegies and ultimate successes in bring about change to the business. Thru their individual stories and tenacity they were destined to become the precursors to the lessons learned about radiation that ultimately saved future generations. We have come along way … and comfortably from their sacrifices. Thank You Kate for your research and for bringing this fascinating story to light. Job Well Done !!!
Starr Wilde –
As a steampunk artist, I have several glow in the dark watch hands and dials. I do really love glow in the dark beads and paint etc so it was very interesting to read about the dangers etc these girls unknowingly exposed themselves to. I tumble all the watch parts I get before using them in jewelry etc except for porcelain dials as they are fragile. It makes me be more cognizant of the possibility they could contain radium or mesothorium so now I will be sure to be careful handling them and to wash my hands extra well after handling them. I am curious as to how many people died as a result of those quack cures like Radithor water. There had to be thousands at least injured by these things but we will never know since it is unlikely that anyone would put together them trying Radithor once or twice and future cancer etc…But absolutely fascinating and should be required reading at some point in high schools.
Jennifer Lara –
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore is the sad story of two groups of women, miles apart, who suffer horrible illnesses and eventual death and their fight to find answers and make those responsible accountable. In 1917, Katherine Schaub starts her new job at the Radium Luminous Material Corp in Newark, New Jersey on February 1, 1917. She joins other young women to paint the dials on watches. After its discovering in 1898, radium had been a remarkable cure all for cancer, hay fever, gout, constipation, and it was in everything. People who even putting in their water as a health tonic. By 1921, strange illnesses began to appear among the girls, but no one seemed to know what going was. Soon, in Ottawa, Illinois, a new company opened and hired girls to paint watch dials. Soon these girls started to notice a pattern in their illnesses and traced it back to their jobs, painting the dials. They begin to take their fight to the companies, the courts, and the public. Will they be heard? Will they be able to end their suffering? Will the companies be held responsible?The Radium Girls was recommended to me by a friend and I eagerly added it to my wish list. When I started to read, I was expecting to hear about illnesses, but I was not expecting the extent of these women’s suffering. I had issues with the author’s writing style and word choose. After describing the horrible conditions these women suffered with blunt and vivid imagery, she chooses to describe one woman’s extensive vaginal ble.
Kasia Olm –
This is one these books that will stay with you long after you finished reading it. The suffering, the indifference, the greed, the lies, the audacity… 90 years later it is still easy to imagine it happening over and over again.
Ren –
This was an amazing read and listen. I had been eyeballing this book for several months after I heard of it’s release on NPR. However, every time I’d go to look for it at Books-a-Million, it’d be $30; the Kindle e-book wasn’t that much cheaper at $26. I was lucky that I happened to log into retrolio during the Kindle’s 10th Anniversary Book Sale, and was able to snag the book for $2! I went ahead and later got the audible version, as well, so I could listen to it while my commute to and from work in the mornings.Kate Moore tales the true, historical account of the Radium Girls in a beautifully, hauntingly crafted narrative non-fiction. The Radium Girls were a group of women from the early 1900’s who had begun working with luminescent paint, composed primarily of radium, in order to help with the war effort. They used this paint to coat hand and pocket watches, so that soldiers could tell the time despite whether or not it was dark. The public was enthralled with the idea of "glow in the dark" watches, and soon the company began manufacturing their products for public sale. The American Public was, to say the least, having a romance with ‘radium’, which was newly discovered at the time. The factory workers were encouraged to put the radium paint coated brushes in their mouth, in order to wet the brush without wasting as much of the product, in comparison to wiping the brush down or dipping it in water. The corporation swore that the radium was full of medicinal propertie.