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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Radium, a radioactive element, was widely used across a range of industrial products in the early twentieth century worldwide.
Chapter 3: Starting around 1915, numerous working-class American girls were hired as dial painters nationwide.
Chapter 4: The vast majority of dial painters became gravely and severely ill from radium poisoning.
Chapter 5: The radium girls sought compensation, yet faced underhanded and unethical legal tactics in court.
Chapter 6: Some progress was ultimately achieved in the corporate negligence cases.
Chapter 7: We owe much to the radium girls, yet hazardous business practices have still persisted.
Description
The Radium Girls (2016) tells the tragic yet ultimately inspiring story of American female workers in the early twentieth century who endured some of the worst corporate negligence imaginable. Their incredible fight for justice and responsibility continues to be a relevant story to this day.
Who Should Listen
- Those interested in the history of women’s rights
- Students of corporate law
- Readers interested in nuclear science