Triangle shirtwaist factory fire

When you hear politicians rail against the sins of organized labor, remember this 1911 disaster.

On this day in 1911, New Yorkers watched in horror as young women and children leaped from the upper floors of a garment sweatshop engulfed in flames. Just east of Washington Square Park in Greenwi…

One of the most infamous tragedies in American manufacturing history is the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911. Are the details of the story accurately remembered? And what can we still learn from the incident today?

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The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

New York - It was a warm spring Saturday when dozens of immigrant girls and women leapt to their deaths — some with their clothes on fire, some holding hands — as horrified onlookers watched the Triangle Shirtwaist factory burn.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, This fire would influence the support of many unions as well as pursuing more safety precautions in work places.

March 3, 1911: Rose Rosenfeld, seventeen (inset), survives the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York, a tragedy that takes 146 lives. Most of the victims are young, female, immigrant Jewish workers. Rosenfeld (later Freedman) speaks out against the factory executives who could have prevented the carnage and spends the rest of her life crusading for worker safety laws.

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