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Two poems by Rosenfeld translated from Yiddish into English by Alice Stone Blackwell (in English) translation of Rosenfeld's Requiem for the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, published in the Jewish Daily Forward; Guide to the Papers of Morris Rosenfeld, held at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York
Sholem Asch's 1946 novel East River (ISBN 978-1-4326-1999-2) tells the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire through the eyes of an Irish girl who was working at the factory at a time of the fire. The Triangle Fire by Leon Stein, 1963 (ISBN 978-0-8014-7707-2) Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25 ...
In 2022, she and Mary Anne Trasciatti of the Triangle Fire Coalition, [6] published Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The book contains nineteen essays that document the 25 March 1911 fire that killed 146 (mostly female) workers in Manhattan's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. [7]
The successful strike marked an important benchmark for the American labour movement, and especially for garment industry unions. The strike helped transform industrial worker culture and activism in the United States. However, the triumph of the strike was later overshadowed by the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in March 1911. [7]
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 ...
The Triangle Fire Memorial is a memorial at the Brown Building in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [1] It commemorates the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 workers, primarily Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls, and is considered a catalyst in the American labor rights movement.
She performed poetry and one-woman shows at: Pyramid Club, Dixon Place, The Kitchen, Performance Space 122 Avant-Garde-Arama, The Knitting Factory, Smalls Jazz Club, Revolution Books, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Worker's United 99th and 100th Triangle Fire Memorial, Remember the Triangle Factory Fire Coalition's 99th memorial at Judson ...
Bella and Yetta are at work and Jane is visiting the factory on March 25, 1911, when a spark ignites piles of cloth, leading to one of the worst workplace disasters in history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. In the end, only Bella survives, by going onto the roof and climbing to a nearby building and out their exit.