Leon Stein's The Triangle Fire (1962)(Cornell Univ. Press). Young readers might enjoy a historical novel about the fire, Mary Jane Auch's Ashes of Roses (2002). |
The Fire at the
Triangle Shirtwaist Company
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant
workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of
the Industrial Revolution. Website
presented by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation
with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!).
OSHA Site: The Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire
http://www.osha.gov/oas/trianglefactoryfire.html
This site produced by the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration includes proclamations, speech, links to video, and
other materials pertaining to the fire.
Women's Rights on Trial
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: 1911
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/trials/triangle.htm
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. Politicians passed legislation to improve
sweatshop conditions in the garment industry.
Triangle Factory Fire Bibliography
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/bibliography.html
Table of contents for research guide from Cornell University
Library.
The
Investigation
and Trial
www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/narrative6.html
The Women's Trade Union League led a campaign to investigate such
conditions among Triangle workers, to collect testimonies, and to
promote an investigation
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (NPR)
- New York Times, March 28, 1911, p. 1. "Blame Shifted on All Sides for Fire Horror."
- Outlook, April 22, 1911, "Indictments in the Asch Fire Case"
- Literary Digest, January 1912, "147 Dead, Nobody Guilty"
In the ensuing years, Freedman spoke out about the conditions that led to the fire. Company executives tried to buy her silence; she refused. Freedman went on to attend college, get married, and raise a family. 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.
Listen as Weekend All Things Considered host Lisa Simeone talks with Dana Walden, Rose Freedman's granddaughter.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK CITY
Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson: Triangle
Shirtwaist
Fire: The 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.
The
Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire. A Journal for MultiMedia History web
site review. Video review of The Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire for the Journal of Multimedia History'
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/trianglefire.html
Brief
Timeline
of American Literature and Events
1910-1919
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1910.htm
25 March, 1911. Fire breaks out at the Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory, killing 146 workers, mostly women and girls; some jump to
their deaths when inadequate equipment makes rescue impossible
NPR:
"A Somber Centennial For The Triangle Factory Fire"
PBS:
"Photo Essay: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory File"
Learning
from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
General Links: Fire and Fire
Safety Information (courtesy of Mrs. Richards' 8th grade summer
science class):
http://library.thinkquest.org/2861/fire.html
http://na.fs.fed.us/fire_poster/science_of_fire.htm
http://www.fireplacespot.com/what-is-fire
http://www.orionn49.com/science_of_fire.htm
http://www.sparky.org/#/Sparky
http://www.firesafety.gov/kids/flash.shtm
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/firesafety.htm
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