
The forgotten heroes who painted watch dials with deadly radium, only to be betrayed by their employers. Their courageous fight against corporate giants revolutionized workplace safety laws. As Pulitzer winner Megan Marshall notes, this "dark chapter in American labor history" remains hauntingly relevant today.
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What happens when your workplace makes you glow in the dark-and you think it's glamorous? In the 1920s, young women working as dial-painters would leave their factories luminous, their hair shimmering, their dresses radiating an ethereal green light. They'd paint their teeth and nails with the substance for parties, delighting in how they'd become walking lanterns. The material making them glow was radium, then considered a miracle cure sold in everything from chocolate to toothpaste. These women had landed elite jobs-clean, artistic, well-paid at $20 weekly when most female work paid far less. They felt lucky. They had no idea they were dying with every brushstroke, that their bones would remain radioactive for over a thousand years, or that their fight for justice would revolutionize workplace safety forever.
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