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Radium Girls, Corporate Boys

Dialpainting became an occupation in 1917 when young women from working-class backgrounds, most of them in their teens and early twenties, were hired to decorate the faces of watches used by soldiers in the trenches with a new paint containing radium. The military's needs declined, but in 1919 consumers launched a decade-long fad in luminous wristwatches, and by the mid-1920s, "studios" in Orange, New Jersey; Ottawa, Illinois; and Waterbury, Connecticut employed hundreds of dialpainters. Ignorant of the hazards of their work, the dialpainters breathed dusty air saturated with radium, painted eyelids and fingernails for evening social engagements, and, in what was the most dangerous practice of all, pointed the brush by placing it between their lips-that is, "lippointing." Lippointing was abolished throughout the industry in 1927, but not before dozens of dialpainters had died, contracted malignant cancers, suffered facial disfigurement, or otherwise become seriously ill, their bones burdened with radium. Dialpainters who began work after the elimination of lippointing fared better, and voluntary radium tolerance standards developed during World War II added a measure of protection for some workers. Even so, dialpainters working in the 1940s and 1950s and later decades suffered from a variety of radium-related illnesses and were subject to higher-than-normal rates of breast cancer and foot tumors. Not until 1979 or 1980 was the last