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2. Triangle Fire Memorial - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. New York State Route 21 - Wikipedia

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   New York State Route 21 (NY 21) is a state highway extending for about one hundred miles (160.9 km) through the western part of New York in the United States. The southern terminus of the route is at an intersection with NY 417 in the village of Andover, and its northern terminus is at a junction with NY 104 in the town of Williamson.

4. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - Wikipedia

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   The factory normally employed about 500 workers, mostly young Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls, who worked nine hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays, [12] earning for their 52 hours of work between $7 and $12 a week, [9] the equivalent of $229 to $392 a week in 2023 currency, or $4.77 to $8.17 per hour.

5. New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 - Wikipedia

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   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]

6. What happens to all of those clothes retailers can't sell? - AOL

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   Thanks to stores like H&M, Old Navy and Forever 21 that offer mass-produced clothing at dirt-cheap prices, we are living in an age of disposable fashion. And with the constant turnover of goods at ...

7. Manhattan Industries - Wikipedia

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   Operations included a factory complex in Paterson, New Jersey. [2] Manhattan Shirt Company was one of the initial tenants in the Emmet Building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan . Robert Lewis Leeds Jr. was the CEO of Manhattan Industries from 1965 [ 3 ] to 1974, when he left to work with Victor Kiam at Remington.