Carter Roy
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's bright and airy.
Teenage girls sit at long tables, chatting, laughing, and sharing sandwiches.
It feels less like a factory and more like a social club.
For a young woman in 1917, this is a dream.
Most jobs available to working-class girls mean grueling factory floors or scrubbing other people's houses on your hands and knees.
Dial painting is different.
It's glamorous.
It's fun.
And the fastest workers earn more than their fathers.
Grace's co-workers become her friends.
They gossip about boys.
They plan their weekends.
Some of them are sisters.
Whole families work here.
The Maggia sisters.
The Carlo sisters.
It's the kind of job you tell your friends about.
She has no idea.
Her dream job is a death sentence.
In 1917, there's only one way to make something glow in the dark.