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

The Radium Girls tells the story of how radium affected the health and lives of factory workers, as well as their families. The first half of the book follows the stories of five women who worked in a radium factory in New Jersey. The second half is primarily devoted to a woman who brings suit against the company that employed her and her fellow employees.

Kate Moore takes readers on an incredible journey through a dark period in American history that is not often taught in school. Moore covers the story of women workers and their exposure to the poisonous element Radium during the late 1910s-early 1920s. The Radium Girls tells how these women, with little to no protection, were subjected to dangerous amounts of radiation that left them many with cancer and deformities in their bodies and children.

The Radium Girls is a nonfictional historical novel that tells the story of the women who were employed as radium dial painters at a New Jersey factory in the early 1900s. These women painted luminous numbers on watch dials with their lips and tongues, but ended up dying from radium-related health problems. The author Kate Moore interviewed over 300 people and her research uncovered an overlooked labor scandal that affected thousands of workers.

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women is a non-fiction book about the female factory workers employed by the US Radium Corporation during the 1920s who, for decades, were exposed to high levels of radium and other radioactive substances. Many of the girls have since died from cancers and other diseases related to radium exposure, but some still remain alive today.

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women is a nonfiction story that chronicles an age-old injustice: in the early 1900s, poor women who painted watch dials with radium paint at the East Tennessee Radium factory were stricken with injuries and sickness.

Kate Moore's book tells the story of how "thousands of women scientists and industrial chemists" were exposed to radium during their work. This radium, mixed with paint and toner, was used at companies like General Electric because it gave off a gold sheen that made the products seem more appealing. Women were asked to mix the dangerous substance with their bare hands and lick their brushes when they could get no other way to properly clean them. When they developed cancer, which many did, companies would not cover any medical bills or provide employment assistance.