We’re reading The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. If you have your hands on a copy, this week we wanted to read up to the end of Chapter 35. If you haven’t been able to grab a copy, don’t worry, you can catch up later.
For next week, try to read up to the end of Chapter 43.
This week, the women become media darlings, the company is on its heels, and a settlement offer comes down the pipeline that’s almost impossible to refuse. However, Big Radium is far from done here.
What did you like about this section?
Feel free to comment with book recommendations or thoughts on what to read next, the next vote is coming.
This section felt like a roller-coaster. Something good, something awful to some small win, one horrible event. The author has a great knack for getting my hopes up, and then dashing them against the wall.
I am constantly surprised that there was no prescription plans, no health insurance and no disability income. This was the 1930s, the years of the New Deal. Yet, the families were financially devastated by their medical expenses. Horrible!
Really enjoy the book and can’t believe how long the unsafe working conditions continued.
I will throw out Uncertain Peril by Claire Hope Cummings and Ingredients by George Zaidan
"I am facing fate with the spirit of a Spartan" The back and forth legal battle is in full effect! Go Radium Girls!!
This section felt like a roller-coaster. Something good, something awful to some small win, one horrible event. The author has a great knack for getting my hopes up, and then dashing them against the wall.
I am constantly surprised that there was no prescription plans, no health insurance and no disability income. This was the 1930s, the years of the New Deal. Yet, the families were financially devastated by their medical expenses. Horrible!