Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Progressivism would immediately point out that the violent reaction Coalhouse had represents the overwhelming tension between not only races but also social classes. Other examples of oppression could be found in the plight of factory worker like those in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. For months, workers went on strike in order to obtain overall better working conditions. Eventually, the laborers had to return to work, and only succeeded in establishing higher wages and shorter working hours.…

Amendment, which stated that there shall now be direct election of Senators by the public people (as opposed to by sometimes corrupt state legislatures). Some events including the Triangle Shirtwaist fire led to increased fire inspections, increased safety equipment, and sanitation monitored by the US…

had skillfully mastered the trade of sewing which enabled them to revolutionize the garment industry. About one third of the garment industry’s workforce were single young women sent by their families to utilize their sewing skills. However, in factories, skilled…

automatically gave the businessmen power over all of the consumers. Also, the Industrial Revolution brought on a surplus of factories instead of farms, which meant many people worked in factories, especially immigrants. The owners of these factories also had lots of control, since they had no limits on the conditions they could place on their many workers. These wealthy factory owners and resource industry owners continued to hold much power over the majority of Americans, until the US…

America has changed greatly, from being a place inhabited by whom explorers called “Indians” to a place where people of diverse background now call home. All but one thing has not changed; people have continued to refer to America as the “Land of Opportunity.” Various push and pull factors triggered the need to come to America. Examples of the push and pull factors would be the Potato Famine for the Irish or Gold Mountain for the Chinese and a s a result, America was highly spoken of. As the…

If you are reading this you may be a cool, musical geek like me, or not be one. There is no in between, sadly. If you know me personally, I am a huge theatre nerd. I have been seeing musicals since I was in kindergarten. My first musical I saw was my rival high school’s performance of Cinderella. I remember singing one of the songs nonstop when I was little, that is when my mother bought the CD and we will sing it in car rides all day, every day. That is when I knew, my obsession with musicals…

become fatal is that of the 146 workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory on March 25, in New York City and lead to the 1914 workman’s compensation act…

work in factories. Wealthy businessmen built factories to meet the demands for building materials in developing cities; In order to make money economically, these businessmen gave their workers fair wages, but after some time workers experienced the downsides of working factories. Every working person in the United States had different opportunites to earn money, instead of moving into the city families had the opportunity to move west and begin farming in Indian territory. Once factory workers…

describing the word "sweatshop" conjures up images of small, dangerous, and nasty occupations in New York's Lower East Side. Immigrant women and children work long hours in factories for nothing being taught to the children and small pay. After the long 15 hour workdays, some workers will have to bring some of their own work from the factory…

This league lobbied for safer working conditions for women and to protect their rights in the working field, most notably garment factories. In 1900, more than 1/5th of the working class were women and about 3 million children were in the working field as well. Popular jobs for children at the time were mining for boys and working in cotton mills for girls. The children were often between…