Radium Girls: The Dark History of a Deadly Glow
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Radium Girls: The Dark History of a Deadly Glow
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Tonight I’m talking about the experience of hundreds of girls who innocently signed up to work in clock factories hoping to generate money to feed their families and help on...
show moreKnown as the "radium girls", these brave young women would go up against some of the biggest companies in North America at the time, fighting for justice and changes in labour laws. Sadly, many of them would never live to see the positive impact they made. The story of the radium girls is both tragic and an important lesson on corporate greed.
Sources:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/tuesday-ferry-boat-survivor-radium-girls-author-no-possum-drop-and-more-1.2941016/remembering-mae-keane-the-last-of-the-radium-girls-1.2941019
https://www.buzzfeed.com/authorkatemoore/the-light-that-does-not-lie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRkeghENceY
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/#:~:text=Marie%20extracted%20pure%20radium%20salts,purified%20and%20converted%20into%20chlorides.
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