{"id":875,"date":"2023-11-21T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startersites.io\/blocksy\/daily-news\/?p=875"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:01:53","slug":"accumsan-tortor-posuere-acut-consequat-semper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/accumsan-tortor-posuere-acut-consequat-semper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Radium Girls: The Workers Who Exposed an Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the early 20th century, young women lined up for one of the best-paying factory jobs available to them: painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To keep a fine point on their brushes, workers were instructed to twirl the bristles between their lips. Company literature assured them radium was harmless \u2014 even beneficial. It was neither.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"the-cost-of-safe\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Cost of &#8220;Safe&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years later, the women began suffering horrific bone deterioration, jaw disintegration, and cancers directly traceable to radium exposure. When they took their employers to court, they had to fight against a company that had known the risks and hidden them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their legal victory helped establish the right of workers to sue for occupational injury, and directly shaped modern workplace safety and labor law in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How many workplace safety standards we now take for granted trace back to people who had to fight for them the hard way?<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 20th century, young women lined up for one of the best-paying factory jobs available to them: painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. To keep a fine point on their brushes, workers were instructed to twirl the bristles between their lips. Company literature assured them radium was harmless \u2014 even beneficial. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forgotten-stories","tag-hot"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}