![]() will be published by Iron Circus Comics in July. Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 19101935 by Claudia Clark Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ![]() Blum says the radium girls had a profound impact on workplace regulations. In this eight-page excerpt some of the women begin to realize something is wrong-at home their hands glow in the dark later a company doctor is fired after warning them not to touch the stuff to their lips. At 107 years old, she was one of the last of the radium girls. The incidents occurred at three different factories: one in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917 one in Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s and a third facility in Waterbury, Connecticut, also in. Though Radium Girls ranges from 1918 through the 1940’s, the bulk of the narrative is centered on events in New Jersey in the mid 1920’s. Written (and partially based on Kate Moore’s 2017 nonfiction work) and stylishly illustrated by Cy., aka Cyrielle Evrard, in eerily luminous pastel shades, Radium Girls offers a lively and haunting portrayal of the women who eventually won a legal ruling against the company in a suit that changed U.S. The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore is a shocking, heartbreaking, and tragic story involving a number of mainly teenage immigrant girls in Newark and Orange. At peak production during World War I, as many as 300 young women worked as dial. Gregory’s gripping drama based on the true story of female laborers who were poisoned and killed by their factory’s radium-based paint. ![]() ![]() Radium Corporation, this new graphic novel is a fictional retelling of the story of the Radium Girls, working-class women who unknowingly painted the dials of clocks and watches with the radioactive substance-dabbing the deadly iridescent paint on their lips to point the brushes after being told it was harmless-that would destroy their health and ultimately take their lives. ![]()
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