Radium Girls is the true story of women employed as dial painters in the 20s and 30s. Despite being told by their employers that radium was completely safe and would even give them "rosy cheeks," hundreds of women perished from the nightmarish symptoms of radium poisoning - honeycombed bones, necrotic mouths, and grapefruit-sized sarcomas, among others. This book follows a few of the brave women who fought a thirteen-year long legal battle against Radium Dial, which deployed every nasty trick in the book to avoid paying worker's comp and admitting radium was poisonous. Catherine Wolfe Donohue - who presented a piece of her rotten jawbone in court as evidence - ended up being a test case which eventually resulted in the creation of OSHA and more reasonable compensation laws. If you're interested in labor organizing, you definitely need to read this book, as the tactics used by Radium Dial are unfortunately still all too familiar nearly 100 years later. Late stage capitalism is the biggest stressor in a lot of our lives, and this book about old-timey capitalism illustrates just how little things have changed.