The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Young women painted watch dials with radium paint in the 1920s and were told to lick their brushes to a fine point. When their jaws began to fall apart, when their bones glowed in the dark, the corporations buried the evidence. Moore follows the women who sued anyway, in pain, with their teeth dissolving, and won. Their legal victories created occupational safety law. Their suffering created it.