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Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti, 2022 (ISBN 978-1-61332-150-8). Esther Friesner 's Threads and Flames ( ISBN 978-0-670-01245-9 ) deals with a young girl, named Raisa, who works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at the time of the fire.
Discussing the Triangle fire, American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers allegedly said, "Rarely do you get an opportunity for such legislative reform, but women had to burn first in ...
The New York Times calls it "An enthralling chronicle".. Publishers Weekly states "Von Drehle's engrossing account, which emphasizes the humanity of the victims and the theme of social justice, brings one of the pivotal and most shocking episodes of American labor history to life".
Strikers protested against long work hours and low wages. They demanded a 20 percent pay raise, a 52 hour work week, additional payment for overtime hours, and improved safety conditions. [10] The factory owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, were vehemently anti-union and did not accept the demands. [10]
The union also became more involved in electoral politics, in part as a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911, in which 146 shirtwaist makers (most of them young immigrant women) either died in the fire [14] that broke out on the eighth floor of the factory, or jumped to their deaths. Many of these workers were unable ...
Rose Schneiderman (April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a Polish-born American labor organizer and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders. As a member of the New York Women's Trade Union League, she drew attention to unsafe workplace conditions, following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, and as a suffragist she helped to pass the New York state ...
Bill Belichick was announced as North Carolina's next head coach Wednesday in a shocking hire that will have ramifications on college football for years to come.It turns out the stunning move ...
The Clark County Fire Department confirmed that it had responded to a vehicle fire in the valet area of the Trump International Hotel at approximatley 8:40 a.m. local time.