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UPC:721337100057
Condition:Used
Genre:Action & Adventure
Platform:Sega Genesis
Region:NTSC (N. America)
SKU:GEN_CRACK_DOWN
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Shay –
The narrative of The Radium Girls stretches over the more than twenty years it would take for the women to win any meaningful legal victory over their former employers. It is not a medical or legal or labour rights text, unlike the academic chronicles that have gone before, and on which Moore drew extensively, but all of these elements are present, and well explained for the general reader. Rather, Moore takes a more personal approach, focusing on the experiences of the women as far as they can be reconstructed. Moore is far from a dispassionate chronicler; she has a rage that is nearly incandescent as she cries out against the injustices these women suffered. She calls for their sacrifice to be given meaning, and for their suffering to be remembered, though they are gone. It is a fitting tribute, but one that can hardly make up for everything the women suffered.
julans –
This book is an amazing record of women involved in the craze of "the health benefits" and industrial uses of radium that occurred in the early 1920s, lasting well after WWII. They were employed in painting dials for watches and equipment with radium paint, without any knowledge of the dangers to which they were being exposed. As a result of management’s subterfuge, they were to spend years suffering from the effect of radium poisoning before finally succumbing. This is the story of their fight for justice in the courts, the fight to stop any further needless suffering and ultimately convincing the courts that the companies should be held responsible. Kate Moore has done an amazing job of recreating their stories, with the assistance of family members, letters, diaries, medical reports, and case notes from the son of the attorney who handled their cases. Moores extensive research results in an amazing story, appalling as the facts may be. It truly is a great read!
Kyle B. –
This is both a well-written story, and a well written history of the women affected by painting radium paint onto dials (for watches, gauges, etc.). It is hard to read at tims without feeling very sad and some outrage at the conduct of the companies involved. It is definitely a case of corporate malfeasance, and how sometimes people let profits get in front of the welfare of people. It reminds me of a quote attributed to Upton Sinclair, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it,” and I assume that is what happened here.The book follows the story of the women involved from the time they started to when they died (many of them in awful, painful ways due to radium replacing calcium in their bones and bodies). The history of radium (and how it was originally considered healthy, and perhaps improved health) is also recounted. The story goes back and forth between two companies and the women who worked at them mainly, and the story is well focused, with good writing and a nice flow.If I were to have any complaints, it is that the science is not explained in depth, and so the final chapter that gives lessons learned would be pretty hard to evaluate objectively (and so felt a little bit hollow to me, since we aren’t really told what exactly scientists learned from studying the radiation effects from the “radium girls” and how that research adjusted nuclear national policy). Since the book is much more focused on.
Amelia –
This book will not haunt me.It will live in me from here on out. I am completely swept away by emotion, from each radium girl to the author as she researched and wrote every painstaking word. It is wonderful and heartbreaking and unbelievable and disgusting. It runs the gamut of feelings and takes hold and makes you wonder what we could be thoughtlessly ingesting. It also makes me pause and give thanks to these women who were not silent, but I feel have been overlooked.Living close to Oak Ridge it resonates with me. I take for granted being safe and guarded from potential nuclear fallout. What could I have been exposed to if it weren’t for these women? And oh how they suffered for it! Needless to say I loved this book. And it would be a fantastic choice for required reading senior year, just as young women are hoping the workforce. Five blazing stars for a story well told. Justice was brought to these pages for the women who didn’t get a voice until it was way too late.
Marlene –
I am so thankful to Kate Moore, the author of “Radium Girls.” This book was an honor to the women who deserve high recognition and who gave their lives simply by doing their jobs. Their fight was so difficult and restitution for their pain, failing health, and death was so meager compared with their suffering. It was so frustrating and sad to learn how those responsible turned their heads simply to make money without caring at all about human beings. Laws were changed because of this debacle, yet there are still people who work hard and become ill because the bottom line is money and the boss needs to become wealthy at any cost. I highly recommend this book. It shines a bright light on the power of fighting important fights. Thank you, Kate Moore and the beautiful women who were the radium girls. You are all amazing!
4boyz4me –
Review first published on jenasbookreviews.blogspot,comRadium was the latest craze after Marie Curie discovered it and business was keen to get in on finding as many applications for it as possible but for the most part, it was too expensive for the everyday person but painting dials for fancy watches or aircraft? That was just the ticket for a couple of the big radium corporations. And for young girls, some as young as 14, trying to help their families make ends meet it was such a simple job. Lick, dip, paint the number on the dial. Lick, dip, paint some more. If you were one of the lucky girls, you worked at the factory where you were allowed to play with it and see just what kind of a glow you could get when painting it on your teeth, nails, clothes, etc.Except every time they licked their brushes to get them to the proper point, they were ingesting a little more radium paint..every.single.time..usually for years.And then they started getting weird health problems. Abscessed teeth but the jaw wouldn’t heal when the tooth was removed. Teeth just getting loose and falling out. Limbs shrinking. Tumors.But the companies refused to admit any wrongdoing, even after reports were coming out that it was the radium. Most lawyers refused to take their cases. The laws at that time did not adequately cover radium exposure. It was a fight of the people vs. big corporations and it was a fight that many did not think they could win.Some didn’t. Some died before they knew what was.
Sue –
I borrowed the e-book from the public library but was so taken with it I bought the hardcover for myself. This is a meticulously researched and documented, yet wonderfully readable book, as many others have reviewed here. Books like this (and "Dark Remedy: The Story of Thalidomide") are crucial for us to understand how these horrible disasters come to pass, the suffering inflicted upon innocent people by callous and evil people. And not just individuals, but cultural and economic systems that allow the short-term calculation of benefits for some vs. the unknown, potentially devastating costs to "the other." Businesses and politicians complain about the yoke of regulations that prevent them from running free with their devastations, known and yet unknown. They line their pockets with the spoils and leave us and future generations twisting in the wind. But in the end, we are to blame for letting them do so for our own short-term benefit.
M. Reynard –
Women have often been the pioneers of change; sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. In the case of the Radium Girls (and for those wondering why they’re called girls instead of women, they were as young as 13 when exposed to unsafe working conditions), what started out as unintentional inquiry, turned into a movement that ultimately led for safer work conditions for everyone, regardless of gender.I have never really heard of the Radium Girls. The shirtwaist factory incident yes, radium girls, not so much. For those not in the know; at the turn of the century, after the Curie’s discovery of radium, it became all the rage to have luminescent clock dials and watches. The way to achieve that was to have people hand paint the radium-based paint on the dials and this task, because of its intricacy, was assigned to women. It was a coveted position, with output designating how much you could be paid. And it came with the side benefit (haha) of glowing after work, which made you all the rage at parties. The workers didn’t realize the danger, and even after it started being exposed, the companies went to extreme lengths to keep the danger in the dark, not help the women already suffering from poisoning, and trying every legal maneuver they could to preserve profits.Ultimately, this book really makes you question the general ethics and compassion the average human being has. While there were so many strong people fighting for these workers, there were just as many.
Dixie Goode –
I had heard mention of the case of the radium dial painters who used their lips to get a thin point on their brushfulls of deadly paint, but until this book was recommended on Emma Watson’s “our shared shelf,†I had not given them any thought beyond thinking that it was a sad, long ago tragedy. It reminded my of my husband’s coworker who died of mesothelioma years after he had stopped working with asbestos cloth in the military, “so soft we brought the fabric ends home to diaper our babies with.â€The tragedy of working hard to better your life and that of your family, while laughing with coworkers and all the time really be killing yourself, could be a sad tale. But this book reads as so much more than that. It introduces the girls as real people, and you find yourself caring and angry when you learn how their employers knew they were murdering their employees but didn’t let that simple truth slow the pursuit of money. This is an important warning still of the danger of greed and the importance of asking questions and speaking up for those left with no voice. No jaws. No life.It is an important book, but an easy one to read, if you don’t mind shedding a few tears.
SassyPants –
This book is about another significant piece of history of which I was unaware. I first read about this in a novel called A Beautiful Poison by Lydia Kang. In this book, one of the characters works for a radium company painting watch dials. Her friends are mystified as her health declines. This is actually a secondary story in the book, but it grabbed my interest. When I saw the book Radium Girls I was eager to learn more.Set in New Jersey and Ottowa,, Illinois this is the true story of all the young women who painted luminous watch dials. With the outbreak of WWI, luminous watch faces were in demand and the factories were hiring. Working in these factories was a highly desirable job and many of the women were just teenagers. Radium, newly discovered by the Curies in 1898, was an amazing element that many claimed to have healing properties beyond treatment of cancer. A real panacea! No need to have any protective gear or to take precautions. The girls were covered in a sparkly dust and even painted themselves for fun. The girls were encouraged to use a technique called lip-pointing to help them get fine lines. Lip, dip, paint. The workers were assured by their bosses that this was completely safe. After a few years, the women started to get sick. Their bones, especially jaw bones, became porous and would break off. Sores did not heal. They had limps, severe pain, and massive lumps that were eventually identified as sarcomas. The women visited multiple dent.