Radium Girls comes from Charming Disaster's album, the Marie Curie-inspired Our Lady Of Radium, a tribute to the young women who were poisoned by their work painting watch dials with luminescent radium-based paint at the US Radium Corp.
' …it seemed like a really good job — it was clean work, it was less physically taxing and paid better than factory or mill jobs, the working environment was nice — and the workers were all young women. They were excited about this sweet gig, and then it betrayed them, poisoning them and cutting their lives short in a horrible way.'
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