baronessekat | 2019 Around the Year Reading Challenge: A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wow. Just Wow. This is book will be added to the list of ones I name when asked for a book recommendation. Especially an audiobook recommendation as Angela Brazil's reading just brought this poignant and touching story of these women to life.

I had heard some things about The Radium Girls (the young ladies hired by various companies to paint dial faces with luminous paint containing radium - all encouraged to use their lips to form perfect points on their brushes), but until this book I had no idea the true suffering they endured, not to mention the groundbreaking work they did in the legal system that ended up creating such things as OSHA and revision and workers comp law.

I was moved by so much of this story and found myself looking for any excuse to turn the audiobook back on just so I could keep going.

HIGHLY recommend.

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