The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Overview
Kate Moore’s The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women is a nonfiction historical account of the lives and legal struggles of female dial-painters in New Jersey and Illinois. Set in the early twentieth century, the responsibility to find beneficial medical care and legal justice against their respective companies fell largely to the women and their families. The legal battles against the United States Radium Corporation and Radium Dial highlighted the American divide between compassion and financial greed, while overall, the book deals with themes of female networks, authority, corporate greed, compassion, and justice.
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Lesson Plans contain 199 pages of teaching material, including:
