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twentieth century in America, one organization and one event come to mind. In 1911, the Triangle Waist Company building caught fire and several of workers in the building didn’t make it out alive. The majority of the workers were young females who worked long hours for little pay and ruthless conditions. Those who had the ability to fight for the women and victims did, pursuing ideas such as unions, for workers’ rights. The owners of the company would be pardoned eventually but their reputation…

“It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history. A dropped match on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sparked a fire that killed over a hundred innocent people trapped inside. The private industry of the American factory would never be the same.”-PBS.org Many men and women who worked in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were immigrants who came to America seeking the “American Dream”. They wanted to make a life for themselves and their families, but many of them…

Both fire extinguishers and smoke detectors were created before the Triangle Fire in 1911. In the nonfiction story Flesh and Blood So Cheap, author Albert Marrin uses both explicit and implicit to help him justify his theme that unsafe practices led to the Triangle Fire, which showed that workers lives’ were not a priority. Nobody knows how the fire started, but some say that it started with a cutter flicking hot ash or someone tossed a live cigarette into a scrap bin. There were 146 people who…

Joshua Robinson Triangle Shirtwaist Fire In the Early 1900’s many immigrants came to American looking to for a better future. Many of the families coming to America had very little possessions, and especially money when they made their trip. Many of the family members upon arriving had to find a job to help support their families. One of the places teenage girls found a job was on the eighth and ninth floors of the Asch building in downtown New York; the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Many of the…

March 25th, 1911, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, which occupied the top three floors of the ten story Asch building in New York City, caught on fire, killing 146 people within fifteen minutes and seriously injuring 70 more. Those affected were mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women between the ages of sixteen and twenty three. At the time, the space was occupied by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a clothing sweatshop run by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory…

tragic incident happened. The strikes that workers performed were further proofs that nobody could tolerate working in such conditions. The fact that employees did not listen to their employee’s complaints lead to the atrocities of the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. It is sad that such an event had to happen to make things change, but the deaths of the 146 workers killed in the fire was not in vain as it opened the doors for improvements in the factory workers’…

Even though it has been a while since the Triangle fire, it is still known today as one of the deadliest workplace accidents in the history of New York City. This horrific fire blazed through the floors, starting from the eighth floor, as the frightened workers tried to make their way through and down the building. Most of the people that died from the fire were immigrant women and teenagers. As the fire spread, the owners of the building got word of the fire and gave warning to the workers by…

The top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company building, in New York city, caught fire killing 146 of the 500 workers. The dead consisted of mainly of young women. The doors for the fire escape were locked and the firefighters ladders couldn’t reach to top floors. Many of the workers prefered to jump to their deaths rather than suffocating. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, founded in 1900, was a union that represented local unions. After the 1911 Triangle Fire, the…

Milestone Three One of the greatest events that resulted from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was the creation a nine member commission dubbed the Factory Investigation Commission (FIC). Following the fire, a superficial investigation was completed and it was found that there were conditions in factories and manufacturing establishments that constituted a daily menace to the lives of the thousands of working men, women, and children. It was also found that there was a lack of fire…

On March 25, 1911, a Saturday afternoon, as the workday was coming to an end the Triangle Shirtwaist Companies factory in New York City burned, killing 145 workers. The factory was located on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the Asch Building in a neighborhood of Manhattan. The floor the employees were working on had a number of exits, including a freight elevator, a fire escape (that crumbled), and stairways; however, rapidly increasing flames quickly prevented workers from using those…