New Jersey · 1917–1928
The Girls Who Glowed: How Five Dying Dial Painters Forced a Reckoning in Orange, New Jersey
Hired around 1917 to paint watch dials with luminous radium paint and taught to point their brushes with their lips, a group of young New Jersey women lost their jaws, their health and ultimately their lives, but their lawsuit forced a 1928 settlement and helped lay the groundwork for American occupational-disease law.
