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The Radium Girls is one of those books everyone should read. Those that tell us recounts of horrible, unfortunately too-real stories. The types we see over and over again under capitalism.
" ‘The radium girls,’ the governor announced, ‘deserve the utmost respect and admiration . . . because they battled a dishonest company, an indifferent industry, dismissive courts and the medical community in the face of certain death."
In this case, we discover how a greedy-ass company kept murdering its own employees by lying to them, all in the name of profit. How, as well, the legal system kept fighting the victim off, once again because the company had money. How, finally, the medical industry did not help as much as it could, once again, we assume, because it's bad business. Or because the victims were women. Maybe, even, because they were poor women. Yup, equality never fucking existed under capitalism.
I hate so much this world. Everything that happened, that keeps on happening, all these girls, dead and suffering, all this nightmarish, dystopian shit... for a few men to get even richer than they already are? Screw them. I'm left with a bitter taste in mouth upon finishing this book. I believe it is the radium, still seeping through our atmosphere, reaching our food and my tongue in the global indiference of a thoughtless society.
" ‘The radium girls,’ the governor announced, ‘deserve the utmost respect and admiration . . . because they battled a dishonest company, an indifferent industry, dismissive courts and the medical community in the face of certain death."
In this case, we discover how a greedy-ass company kept murdering its own employees by lying to them, all in the name of profit. How, as well, the legal system kept fighting the victim off, once again because the company had money. How, finally, the medical industry did not help as much as it could, once again, we assume, because it's bad business. Or because the victims were women. Maybe, even, because they were poor women. Yup, equality never fucking existed under capitalism.
I hate so much this world. Everything that happened, that keeps on happening, all these girls, dead and suffering, all this nightmarish, dystopian shit... for a few men to get even richer than they already are? Screw them. I'm left with a bitter taste in mouth upon finishing this book. I believe it is the radium, still seeping through our atmosphere, reaching our food and my tongue in the global indiference of a thoughtless society.
‘I always admired their strength,’ said Catherine Donohue’s great-niece, ‘to stand up and unite.’
And, united, they triumphed. Through their friendships, through their refusal to give up and through their sheer spirit, the radium girls left us all an extraordinary legacy. They did not die in vain.
They made every second count.
Bring on the revolution, please. When will we unite? Every second keeps counting. Especially, seeing as History repeats itself. Nothing ever changes when the system remains the same.
‘They didn’t have any respect for the health of the girls,’ one LP worker spat. ‘They were just interested in getting the work out.’
‘Luminous Processes,’ declared the local paper, ‘seems to put profits before people.’
How quickly we forget.
Let's remember, this time.