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Summary of The Radium Girls 

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If you ever doubt the saying “heroes do not always wear capes”, the heroic story of the radium girls should change your mind. Kate Moore, New York Times bestselling author, wrote “The Radium Girls” as a vivid depiction of the struggles of young female factory workers who were poisoned by the glowing radium paint they worked with. The company they worked prioritized their profits over people and the government enabled them and tried to deny the girls justice. The courage of some of these women eventually led to a revolution in industrial safety standards and US labor laws, in general. This summary shares Kate Moore’s account of the true story of corporate greed and denial and the strength of humans in the face of it. It gives you a detailed narration of this story so that you can not only tell it to others, but you can also learn from it. Read on for a story of courage and drive strength from it. “Through their friendships, through their refusal to give up and through their sheer spirit, the radium girls left us all an extraordinary legacy. They did not die in vain.” ~ Kate Moore

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Radium is a powerful chemical element known to be the most radioactive metal on earth

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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in December 1898, was such an intriguing discovery. Its special features seemed to be endless. Every day the couple discovered something new about their element. It made an impression on photographic plates through black paper according to the Curies’ daughter. It corroded and reduced to powder the paper or the cotton wool in which it was wrapped.

Radium is truly beautiful. What could it not do? The couple had squeezed out a tiny quantity for a scientist to use in one of his lectures in England. The man had kept the radium in a slim glass tube and had tucked it within the folds of his waistcoat pocket. As he traveled, the radium shot out its powerful rays towards his pale soft skin. The burning grew in intensity until the pain made him remember the radium and its immense powers. Radium was indeed a wonder element which had numerous uses.
One of the many uses of radium was as a self-luminous paint for watches, clocks, nuclear panels, aircraft switches, and instrument dials.
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When the U.S joined the World War, job opportunities were open to many ladies in the radium factory

During World War I, around 1917, the watch dial factory of the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was a mini gold mine to many young girls in Newark, New Jersey. All they had to do was to paint watches and military dials with the new element radium. Among the many ladies who worked painting dials was an exceptionally bright teenager, Grace Fryer. Grace had a job which paid about the same amount as dial-painting did but she quit to join the radium company as it was close to her home. She was shown the technique all the dial painters and inspectors were taught.
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Even though it was causing great harm to the girls, radium was still sold and perceived as harmless

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After a long time, the company eventually paid attention and started to investigate the rumors

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Even though the company feigned all the seriousness they could, the lawsuits started building up

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After a long chase and avoidance of justice, the radium dial-watch factory was finally brought to book

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