Triangle Fire A Brief History with Documents

Name: Triangle Fire A Brief History with Documents
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ISBN: 9780312464523

ISBN-10: 0312464525

ISBN-13: 9780312464523

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jo Ann Argersinger, Jo Ann Argersinger

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In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City claimed the lives of 146 workers, mainly young immigrant women, who either leaped to their deaths or were trapped in the blaze by locked doors and inadequate fire escapes. The tragedy brought national attention to the unsafe working conditions, long hours, and low pay that had prompted a national garment workers' strike a year before. Jo Ann Argersinger's volume examines the context, trajectory, and impact of this Progressive Era event. An introduction explores the demands industrialization placed upon urban working women, their fight to unionize, and the Triangle fire's significance in the greater scope of labor reform.…

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List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 2/4/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 142
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.17" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

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Foreword


Preface


List of Illustrations



Introduction: The Fire that Changed America


Fashioning a New Industry: "The Shirtwaist Kings" and the Factory System


Working "Girls" in the Garment Industry


Triangle and the "Uprising of Twenty Thousand"


"Fire!": The Triangle Tragedy


"The Day it Rained Children": Grief, Outrage, and Reform


The Trial: 146 Dead but "Nobody Guilty"


Epilogue: The "Fire that Lit the Nation"



The Documents


The Triangle Waist Company in the Asch Building



Arthur E. McFarlane , Fire and the Skyscraper: The Problem of Protecting Workers in New Yorkï¿½ï¿½ï¿½s Tower Factories, September 191