The song Radium Girls by Tom Morello featuring The Bloody Beetroots, Pussy Riot, The Last Internationale, Aimee Interrupter, and White Lung was released June 4, 2021 by label Comandante …

Discover the story of the Radium Girls, women who worked in a factory with radioactive materials before the dangers were known, and learn how their experience led to reforms in workplace safety law.

In the book, The Radium Girls, Kate Moore introduces readers to these real women, who lived in New Jersey and in Illinois: separated by 800 miles, but united in their determination to stand up for …

Mar 19, 2019 · Catherine Wolfe Donohue was one of several radium-poisoned women who died before their cases were finalized and many other suffering dial-painters never sued, but the cases are …

It was a national scandal what happened to the “Radium Girls” in the 1920s. Radium was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, and its unique glow and supposed curative powers quickly …

Jun 7, 2024 · They painted watch dials, clocks and instruments for ships and aircraft with glow-in-the-dark paint. Eventually, they would learn that it was radium poisoning from the paint that was slowly …

Radium Girls: Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler. With Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd. In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work …

Aug 6, 2025 · This public perception of radium drove several thousand young women into watch-dial factories during and after World War I. Many were grateful to have glamorous, high-paying jobs as …

Dec 25, 2025 · Dive into the poignant story of the Radium Girls, exposed to radioactive paint at work, revealing the devastating impact of industrial radiation.

Apr 6, 2023 · Explore the haunting story of the Radium Girls, a group of women exposed to lethal amounts of radium while working in watch factories in early 20th-century America.