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This was on my “want to read” list and then I saw it’s part of the Summer history challenge, so here we are.
— Jul 02, 2026 04:21PM
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Seems exposure to radium was the basis for the eventual creation of OSHA. (Though 1971 was a looong time after the mid 1920s.)
— Jul 04, 2026 04:15PM
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The way the story is written is conflicting for me. While I feel it has an agenda, I’m also outraged at how the radium girls were marginalized or dismissed. And the story has some personal connection since I lived in Marseilles, near Ottawa, IL, around 1980, not long after Luminous Processes closed down. I still remember the fenced off building downtown.
— Jul 03, 2026 05:28PM