In spring of 1911, the second largest workplace disaster in the history of New York City occurred. 146 women and teenage girls died in a fire that broke out on the top three floors of the ten-story work building that the Triangle Shirtwaist Company shared with other businesses. The fire was likely started with a cigarette bud being dropped, and the fire quickly grew with all the clothing and material to burn on. The young women tried to escape without the accommodation of a safe and appropriate exit
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Although the Triangle Fire was a tragic event in history that left 146 workers dead, there was a silver lining. The Triangle Fire was a catalyst to changing workers’ rights and was a motivation for many immigrants and women to fight for a change. The Triangle Waist company, which was owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris was a huge success but they did not use moral methods to gain such riches. The factory was dominated by immigrants with most being young women who would work hours upon hours. Taking
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The Terrible Triangle Fire The fire of the Triangle Waist Company made history based on a tragedy occurred on March 35, 1911 in New York City where the result of safety neglections in industries left more than one hundred deaths. The majority of them were young girls which did not surprised me due to the fact that everyone in this century is used to hear or see how the necessities are pretty expensive and specially for women who have to work from a really young age. The worst part of this is that
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1911 Triangle Waist Factory Fire What exactly is a sweatshop? Have they ever existed and if so, do they still exist in today’s society? According to Dictionary.com a sweatshop is “a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.” Factories in which the definition mentions, do, in fact exist. These factories can be traced back to the 19th century. One in particular, was called the Triangle Waist Company in New York City. The ending result of what happened to the
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Industrialization after the Civil War Monyea Anthony Professor Adam McBride History 105: Contemporary U.S. History August 3, 2014 The industrialization after the civil war had affected American in different ways. Industrialization influenced the U.S society by the number of employed children
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Her life before the cabinet was even better than her earlier life. She was head of the New York League. This was in 1910. She did different things with this. Mostly she lobbied which she was working for her hours and conditions. She just did not do that she also worked as a professor. She taught at Adelphi College teaching sociology. Her life was always busy. She never seemed to stop. The year after that something horrible happened. She was their when the Traingle Shirtwaist Factory fire happened
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Out of This Furnace, by Thomas Bell, although fiction, depicts actual people, who were working in the steel mills of Pennsylvania, in the early nineteen hundred’s. These immigrants who worked within the mills, were mostly men, “a good half were Slovaks or other non-English-speaking foreigners, and of that half not one had a skilled job” (Bell 119 Kindle version). Many of these men had come to the United States to find work, and hopefully have their families join them once they got established
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deaths in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The negligence of proper fire safety equipment, poor building design, absence of an appropriate fire escape, and substandard evacuation routine caused innocent lives to wither in the inferno. Disregarding proper safety measures had a resounding effect in the tragedy. As Abramowitz was taking his coat and hat from a nearby peg, he noticed the fire. The fire that would ultimately burn and destroy the factory. Dinah Lipschitz, a worker at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
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“Triangle Fire of 1911” is a documentary based on the fire that occurred in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 25, 1911, in which 145 workers of various ages died. The shirtwaist factory fire was the deadliest workplace accident in history, although shirtwaist factory workers had gone on strike for better working conditions before the fire it was not until after the tragedy that several laws were passed to improve working conditions. “The Triangle Fire of 1911” also talks about how the women
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that occurred in 1911 was a huge tragedy and led to discussion of why safety regulations are important. The girls couldn’t escape because the made assumptions about the moral character of the works and locked the doors that led to the fabric so the workers didn’t steal any. The fire killed 148 people because there was no escape route; so most of the people either jumped out the window or burned in the fire. If there had been safety regulations in the factory then
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