Literally, the work was light as the main job the young ladies were given was to apply glowing paint to the faces of clocks ... element radium, was layered onto the dials, their hands naturally ...

In the 1920s when radium paint was introduced into the manufacture of clock dials in a New Jersey factory, the dangers of the newly developed material were still to be discovered.

Moore tells the story of the young women who worked in radium-dial factories focusing on the United States Radium Corp. (USRC) in Orange, New Jersey starting in 1917 and the Radium Dial Company in ...