Who Were The Radium Girls?

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Radium-infused paint that glowed green in the dark was once a trendy feature for wrist watches. Negligent factory managers knew it could be harmful - but told their working-class women employees it would “put roses in their cheeks”. After suffering horrific illness and injuries from radiation poisoning, the young dial painters fought for justice against corporate executives in an uphill legal battle as well as a race against time as their bodies deteriorated. Credits: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bfmp/videos/133046 Welcome to the BuzzFeed Unsolved Network! This channel is your one-stop destination for all things mystery, conspiracy, supernatural, true crime, and everything in between. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/2zuaR06. MERCH: We've got it! SHOP NOW: https://bzfd.it/2MDBk2d MUSIC Dark Secret_Full Mix Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. Play Dirty_Full Mix Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. Pleasant Destruction_Full Mix Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. In a Dark Place_Full Mix Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. DAS BOESE - Extinction Of All Life_Full Mix Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. Thus My Heart Beats Remix_Full Mix Audio Extracted Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. Thus My Heart Beats Remix_Full Mix Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. End Of The World As We Know It_Full Mix Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. Lost Within_Full Mix Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. Sedated Consciousness_Full Mix Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. SFX Provided By AudioBlocks (https://www.audioblocks.com) STILLS Curious Curies Hulton Archive/Getty Images Antique photograph of the British Empire: Women working in cycle factory ilbusca/Getty Images Directly Above Of Old Fashioned Pocket Watches In Shop Appu Shaji / EyeEm/Getty Images Antique photo: Businessman group portrait ilbusca/Getty Images Close up of old glass bottles for medicine EujarimPhotography/Getty Images Wilbur Wright Hudson-Fulton Celebration Bettmann/Getty Images Full Frame Shot Of Airplane Cockpit Control Panel Samuel Fenart / EyeEm/Getty Images Marie and Pierre Curie in their lab Photos.com/Getty Images Marie Curie visiting with two scientists on street in Pittsburgh Photos.com/Getty Images Old engraved illustration of human jaw with Milk-teeth mikroman6/Getty Images Old engraved illustration of human jaw with teeth mikroman6/Getty Images 1930s italian woman portrait playing piano lcodacci/Getty Images Vintage photograph of a young woman Tolga TEZCAN/Getty Images Young woman in 1915 Lisa-Blue/Getty Images Woman in 1920 Lisa-Blue/Getty Images Young woman in 1920 Lisa-Blue/Getty Images 1920s italian indoor woman portrait lcodacci/Getty Images Portrait of young woman in 1915 Lisa-Blue/Getty Images Young Woman in 1915 bgwalker/Getty Images 1920s italian family portrait lcodacci/Getty Images Black and white photo of caring mother leaning over her baby tobntno/Getty Images Italian emigrant family in New York in 1920 Buena Vista Images/Getty Images Wartime Morse Code Communications cjp/Getty Images Young Woman in 1920.Black And White Lisa-Blue/Getty Images Vintage photograph of a young woman ArtMarie/Getty Images Group of People in 1910.Sepia Toned Lisa-Blue/Getty Images VIDEO Defocused sun glare on black background HD 1920x1080 Alexander Bashkirov/Getty Images A vintage scientist picks up a bottle of radium to study. JHDT Stock Images LLC/Getty Images Scene dollies right to vintage scene of a bottle of radium on a desk. JHDT Stock Images LLC/Getty Images XX century military luminous watch time-lapse bobuz/Getty Images Green Magical Ink Clouds Spencer_Whalen/Getty Images Gavel sitting on juridical paperwork contract ersen_cira/Getty Images Background mask with damaged frame effect of old film with scratches and flicker 4k Alexander Bashkirov/Getty Images Various clocks looped as time flow concept animation Shaiith/Getty Images Fashion model`s hands painted green shows gestures. Fashion Video. borealisgallery/Getty Images Background with green bright rays from the light KinoMasterskaya/Getty Images Chest x-ray and gases. Blooms-Studio/Getty Images MRI scan. Human brain. MADDRAT/Getty Images Watchmaker assembling watch selected-takes/Getty Images Soft bristle brush picking up paint. FilmColoratStudio/Getty Images Stylish holographic foil reflections, pixel noise, tv damage effect Anton Moskovchenko/Getty Images