Agent Orange was proven afterwards to cause very serious health problems for both the Vietnamese people and returning United States military personnel and their families. They would be the first in a wave of thousands to gain employment in similar plants across the United States in a good-paying, seemingly glamorous vocation. One of the saddest aspects of this story is that the so-called “Radium Girls” didn’t rush into this blindly. Fortunately, the Radium Girls did not suffer in vain. Their cause eventually changed labor laws for the better in the United States for all factory workers.

Source: The Nation May 07, 2021 06:56 UTC