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Recently I’ve spent a lot of time in this lockdown reading about labor, migrant labor, labor laws in different countries etc. And I came across a fascinating story that I didn’t know of before, quite by accident. This story tells us why labor protection laws matter.
Recently I’ve spent a lot of time in this lockdown reading about labor, migrant labor, labor laws in different countries etc. And I came across a fascinating story that I didn’t know of before, quite by accident. This story tells us why labor protection laws matter.
It’s the story of the #RadiumGirls. I’m putting this out here because it’s about women, labor and how labor protection evolved in the last century in the US. Maybe many of you already know this one. For me it’s new.
We all know that Marie Curie and her husband discovered radium in 1898 and later she went on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. Soon after it was discovered, radium came to be used in watch faces because it had this glow-in-the-dark property.
