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	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was a major industrial disaster, causing the death of 146 garment workers who either died in the fire or jumped to their deaths.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Company, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, occupied the top three floors of the ten-story Asch building in New York City at the intersection of Greene Street and Washington Place, just east of Washington Square.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Company had already become well-known outside the garment industry by 1911: the massive strike by women's shirtwaist makers in 1909, known as the Uprising of 20,000, began with a spontaneous walkout at the Triangle Company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire (1149 words)

	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Uncyclopedia
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New Bjork City on Mocktober 32, 1911, was the best thing to happen that year, causing the birth of more than one hundred squirrels who were either concieved in the fire or spontaneously came into existence.
		The factory got its name from the triangular shirts the squirrel workers were required to tie around their waists in a yuppie fashion.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Company had already become well-known outside the animal energy industry by 1911: the massive Block Party held by drunken squirrels in 1909, known as the the kick-assiest party, began with a spontaneous squirrel dance-off at the Triangle Company.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_Fire (455 words)

	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire is vindicated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 is often misused as a example of the need for safety codes and child labor laws.
		It is fortunate that the Shirtwaist company was not operated by the government, or the loss of life would have been even greater.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist fire exposes the myth of safety from government regulations, including those regulations imposed after the fire, and it shows that safety comes from capitalism and its technology.
	rexcurry.net /shirtwaist.html (812 words)

	The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial
		The bodies of seamstresses, who jumped from the factory floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company to avoid being burned alive, lie outside the building.
		Triangle employee William Bernstein grabbed pails of water and vainly attempted to put the fire out.
		In the thickening smoke, as several men continued to fling water at the flames, the fire spread everywhere--to the tables, the wooden floor trim, the partitions, the ceiling.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglefire.html (168 words)

	The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911
		Upon finding that they could not use the doors to escape and the fire burning at their clothes and hair, the girls of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, aged mostly between 13 and 23 years of age, jumped 9 stories to their death.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 still remains one of the most vivid and horrid tragedies that changed American Labor Unions and labor laws.
		At the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, some of the doors were locked.
	www.csun.edu /~ghy7463/mw2.html (1410 words)

	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory -- NRHP Travel Itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Asch building--known as the Brown building today--was the home of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and site of both the first large scale strike of women workers in the country and of one of the worst industrial disasters in American history.
		Overcrowding, poor ventilation and dangerous machinery caused the local union to declare a strike against Triangle, and national labor and feminist figures such as Samuel Gompers and Lillian Wald spoke in support at local rallies.
		A spirit of solidarity grew throughout New York's clothing factories and when a general strike was called in the fall of 1909, over 20,000 workers--4/5 of them women--walked off their jobs.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/ny30.htm (302 words)

	OpinionEditorials.com — Privatize Fire Departments. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire proves it. - Curry
		Though there are persistent myths that doors were locked and fire escapes were faulty, the owner of the building and the proprietors of the Triangle Co. were exonerated by a judge, and an insurance company gave the men $64,925 for property damage.
		The popular use of the Shirtwaist story is misplaced, and the fire is a warning to employers and employees to beware of the misdeeds and negligence of other employees.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist fire points out the absurd myth of safety from government regulations, including those that were imposed after the fire, and it shows that safety comes from capitalism and its technology.
	www.opinioneditorials.com /guestcontributors/rcurry_20040907.html (1047 words)

	About the Triangle Fire
		Many of the Triangle factory workers were women, some as young as 15 years old.
		Perkins assisted in the factory investigation from her position as executive secretary of the New York Committee on Safety.
		This board, consisting of representatives from the clothing industry and from the union, was established a year prior to the Triangle Fire in the aftermath of the 1910 Cloakmakers' Strike.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/pinsky/triangle.htm (2536 words)

	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was a major industrial disaster, causing the death of more than one hundred garment workers who either died in the fire or jumped to their deaths.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Company occupied the top three floors of the ten-story Asch building in New York City at the intersection of Greene Street and Washington Place.
		While the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union negotiated a collective bargaining agreement covering most of those workers after a four month strike, Triangle Shirtwaist refused to sign the agreement.
	voyager.in /Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire (1059 words)

	Lesson Plans
		In the spring of 1911, a small fire broke out in the workshops of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located on the eastern edge of Washington Square Park in New York City.
		Triangle's mostly immigrant employees soon found that the doors leading out of the upper floors were locked, and that other safety precautions in the building were faulty or nonexistent.
		Through the activities presented in this lesson, students will be become familiar with the conditions facing factory laborers in the early part of the 20th century, as well as the causes and consequences of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
	thirteen.org /edonline/ntti/resources/lessons/fireinthesky/index.html (660 words)

	Triangle shirtwaist factory - Powell's Books - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
		Shirtwaist similar to those made at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: March 25, 1911 http://www.ilr.cornell.
		On March 25, 1911, dozens of workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory made the same grim choice.
	wideportal.com /?q=triangle-shirtwaist-factory (268 words)

	MuseumNetwork.com - Learning - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire exhibit, brought to you by Museum Learning, examines this historically significant and tragic event of 1911 through three unique perspectives: the words of Fire Chief Croker, stories about factory workers who survived the fire, and accounts of courageous individuals, who performed acts of heroism.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, housed on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of the Asch building on the corner of Washington Place and Greene Streets, employed over 600 people.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was a turning point in fire prevention practices.
	www.museumnetwork.com /learning/features/exhibit-002/exhibit_mn.asp (766 words)

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		Significance: The Triangle Shirtwaist fire spurred the efforts of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) to organize garment workers, and increased support for the vote among wage-earning women.
		Triangle Shirtwaist FireThe worst factory fire in the history of New York City.
		It occurred on 25 March 1911 in the Asch building at the northwest corner of Washington and Greene streets, where the Triangle Shirtwaist Company occupied the top three of ten floors; five hundred women were employed there, mostly Jewish immigrants between the ages of thirteen and twenty-three.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglelinks.htm (401 words)

	New York State Department of Labor - LABOR DEPARTMENT REMEMBERS 95th ANNIVERSARY OF SWEATSHOP FIRE
		On March 25, 1911, fire swept through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, trapping workers on the top three floors of a 10-story building, where exits were locked and fire escapes were defective.
		“The tragic death of 146 young women garment workers, almost all teenage girls and young women, in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 93 years ago led to the first serious labor safety laws in the nation and was a dramatic impetus to the American Labor movement,” said Senator Serphin R. Maltese (Queens).
		After the Triangle fire, Frances Perkins was a member of the Factory Investigating Commission that successfully recommended stronger safety measures.
	www.labor.state.ny.us /pressreleases/2006/March21_2006.htm (1283 words)

	NPR : The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
		A pivotal case in point is the fire at a New York City clothing factory almost a century ago.
		The "Triangle Fire" started on an upper floor of the high-rise factory building in Greenwich Village on a Saturday afternoon in March 1911.
		The Triangle Factory Fire exhibit at Cornell University
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1416870 (547 words)

	NPR - Weekend All Things Considered: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
		Rose Freedman was the last living survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
		After almost a century, she found herself back in the spotlight as the oldest survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
		She gave speeches and granted interviews and was featured in a documentary about her life that recently aired on many public television stations.
	www.npr.org /programs/watc/features/2001/010325.triangle.html (267 words)

	The General Slocum Disaster: Brief Account of Disaster
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred at a time of intense labor struggle, especially in the garment trades.
		This conclusion was reinforced when the public learned that the factory owners had locked the exits to keep the women at their machines.
		By the 1920s, as the Triangle fire became firmly entrenched in the American memory, all that remained of the General Slocum fire was a small, annual commemoration at the Lutheran cemetery in Middle Village, Queens.
	www.general-slocum.com /0acc.htm (1887 words)

	americas.org - Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – Then and Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Free trade allows factories and capital to move across borders, in a global race to the bottom.
		The deaths of 146 Triangle Shirtwaist factory workers on March 25, 1911 sparked national outrage and organizing.
		The best way to mourn the Triangle Shirtwaist workers, the KTS Textile workers, and all the workers who suffer and die for corporate globalization is to fight back with global solidarity.
	www.americas.org /item_25959 (921 words)

	HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
		Finally, the girls upstairs were able to open the stairway door and raced down the stairs to street level -- most of them with their garments almost completely burned from their bodies.
		The 10th floor, which was where the showroom and the pressing of the shirtwaists took place, first received the message of a fire over the teleautograph which relayed messages between floors.
		Such was the case with the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire on March 25, 1911.
	www.historybuff.com /library/refshirtwaist.html (1978 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Rights on Trial - Triange Shirtwaist Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the turn of the 20th century, poor working conditions and long hours were standard for most factory employees — especially for female workers.
		Male unions and employers kept women out of better-paying jobs, forcing them into industries such as garment-making, where sweatshop conditions prevailed, pay was low, and employees had to pay for their cutting and sewing supplies.
		New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a maker of women's clothing, became one of the targets.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/whm/trials/triangle.htm (1451 words)

	Triangle Waist Company
		Triangle Waist Company, often called the Triangle Shirtwaist Co., manufacturers of women's cotton and linen blouses.
		Located in lower Manhattan in the early 20th cent., on Mar. 25, 1911 it was the site of New York City's worst factory fire.
		The ultimate result of their investigations were new labor, health, and fire safety laws, which, among other things, mandated outward-opening doors, sprinkler systems, fire drills, and regular building inspections, and forbade locked doors during working hours.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0930651.html (377 words)

	The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. A Journal for MultiMedia History web site review.
		These factory workers, mostly young female immigrants from Europe working long hours for low wages, died because of inadequate safety precautions and lack of fire escapes.
		The cartoons, mostly from ILGWU publications, highlight the inadequate safety precautions that led to the Triangle fire and express some of the outrage of New Yorkers against the unsafe working conditions and the uncaring attitude of the employers.
		The Triangle fire is, and should be, the main focus of the site but the fire could also act as a window to show more union history.
	www.albany.edu /jmmh/vol2no1/trianglefire.html (999 words)

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		That coalition demanded and won the creation of a state commission to inquire into unsafe factory conditions; it also ultimately secured passage of landmark laws to protect the health and safety of New York workers.
		Students will discuss as a whole group the problems exposed by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and generate a concept map of their findings.
		The roles are: factory owners, victim’s families, survivors, union leaders and government officials.
	www.ashp.cuny.edu /R7onelessons/trianglereform.doc (452 words)

	Lesson Plan > Triangle Shirtwaist Inquiry
		Shirtwaist similar to those made at the factory
		Before the Fire: A Description of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and Fire
		An Inquiry Unit into the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911
	urbandreams.ousd.k12.ca.us /lessonplans/triangle/student.htm (110 words)

	Lesson Plan > Triangle Shirtwaist Inquiry
		Students will become familiar with the large variety of written and visual sources that are available to them to arrive at conclusions.
		The Triangle Factory Fire Tragedy is the result of that concern.
		My goal was to present a lesson using an assortment of sources from online sources: primary, secondary, written, and visual.
	urbandreams.ousd.k12.ca.us /lessonplans/triangle/index.html (356 words)

	The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
		It was 1911, so none of these jobs paid her enough to live on her own.
		She was able to get a job as a seamstress at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in lower Manhattan.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was located in New York City.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_35_480.html (619 words)

	Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – Then and Now
		One hundred forty-six workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire March 25, 1911 in New York City.
		In a world where laws are dictated by the forces of corporate globalization, money needs no passport or visa.
		Global worker solidarity takes many forms and advances under many banners -- from Sweat Free Communities (www.sweatfree.org) and the National Labor Committee (www.nlcnet.org) and United Students Against Sweatshops (www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org) in the United States to the Clean Clothes Campaign (www.cleanclothes.org) in Britain and hundreds of organizations around the world.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0323-30.htm (853 words)

	The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
		According to its introduction, this Web site was created in response to requests for information on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire from secondary school students.
		Consistent with its own archival mandate, its Triangle fire is first and foremost a story of labor.
		Neither original in its narrative structure nor interpretive in its presentation, the site lets its materials retell the story of the fire, factory working conditions, subsequent investigation and legislation, and present-day struggles.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/1076 (437 words)

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