The Triangle Fire Memorial has been years in the making. The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition held an international competition to design a memorial in 2013. Out of the nearly 180 submissions sent ...
In 1911, recent Jewish immigrants stood side by side with their brothers and sisters in the labor movement as they mourned the loss of 146 workers – mostly young women who were Jewish and Italian ...
Flowers on the memorial for the 146 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire during its dedication on October 11 Sean Mackell / New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO Until recently, a ...
How a new generation of labor organizers is using the legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire
When Starbucks barista Megan DiMotta started organizing a union at her store, she had plenty of present-day grievances to discuss, such as inadequate wages and unsafe working conditions during the ...
On March 25, 1911, my Great Aunt Fannie went to work in a high-rise garment factory in New York City. The workday ended with Fannie Lansner jumping from a ninth-floor window to avoid the scorching ...
Officials will unveil this fall the long-awaited Triangle Fire Memorial at the site of one of the deadliest blazes in New York City history, in Greenwich Village. The infamous inferno broke out in the ...
It was the afternoon of Saturday, March 25, 1911, when a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. One hundred and forty six people died, the overwhelming ...
She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life to promoting worker safety. By Douglas Martin To Michael Hirsch, the ...
History remembers the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory fire in New York City as one of the most infamous American industrial incidents. A fire broke out in the factory on March 25, 1911, and ...
(New York Jewish Week) – As Allison and Rebecca Kestenbaum stood in front of a building in Greenwich Village on Wednesday, they were thinking about another set of sisters: their relatives Celia and ...
The oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, who was born in Italy and lived in the United States for six years at the time of her death, notes Cornell University. The two youngest victims, ...
Death on the job was a routine hazard for American workers a century ago. About 100 workers, on average, died every day as mines collapsed, ships sank, trains crashed and factories burned. Nearly all ...
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