The Triangle Fire : a brief history with documents

Responsibility [edited by] Jo Ann E. Argersinger (Southern Illinois University Carbondale). Edition Second edition. Publication Boston : Bedford/St Martin's, [2016] Copyright notice ©2016 Physical description xv, 137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Series Bedford series in history and culture.

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Creators/Contributors

Contributor Argersinger, Jo Ann E., editor.

Contents/Summary

• Part One. Introduction: The fire that changed America. The garment industry and its workers ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand" ; The Triangle tragedy: grief and outrage ; "The fire that lit the nation": investigations and reform
• Part Two. The documents. The garment industry and its workers. Fire and the skyscraper: the problem of protecting workers in New York's tower factories/ Arthur E. McFarlane, September 1911 ; The shirtwaist trade / Pearl Goodman and Elsa Ueland, December 1910 ; Italian women in industry: a study of conditions in New York City / Louise C. Odencrantz, 1919 ; The story of a sweatshop girl / Sadie Frowne, September 25, 1902 ; Life in the shop / Clara Lemlich, November 26, 1909 ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand". Arrest strikers for being assaulted / New York Times, November 5, 1909 ; Women in a labor war : how the working girls of New York East Side have learned to use men's weapons in a struggle for better conditions / Allan L. Benson (April 1910) ; 8. Church to the aid of girl strikers / New York Times, December 20, 1909 ; The Shirtwaist Makers' strike / Constance D. Leup, December 18, 1909 ; The uprising of the twenty thousands (dedicated to the Waistmakers of 1909), 1910 ; The Triangle tragedy: grief and outrage. The Triangle Fire / New York World, March 27, 1911 ; Partners' account of the disaster / New York Times, March 26, 1911 ; The Washington Place fire / Rosey Safran, April 20, 1911 ; The factory girl's danger / Miriam Finn Scott, April 15, 1911 ; 120,000 pay tribute to the fire victims / New York Times, April 6, 1911 ; Emergency relief after the Washington Place Fire, New York, March 25, 1911 / report of the Red Cross Emergency Relief Committee of the Charity Organization of the Society of the City of New York, 1912 ; Budgets of the Triangle Fire victims / Elizabeth Dutcher, September 1912 ; The Triangle fire / Martha Bensley Bruere, May 1911 ; All for one / Rose Schneiderman (1967) ; "The fire that lit the nation" : investigations and reform. 20. Indictments in the Asch Fire case / The Outlook, April 22, 1911 ; Triangle witnesses got increased pay / New York Times, December 22, 1911 ; 147 dead, nobody guilty / Literary Digest, January 6, 1912 ; What the grave covers / Chicago Daily Tribune, September 30, 1913 ; Preliminary report of the Factory Investigating Commission / State of New York, 1912 ; The Roosevelt I knew / Frances Perkins, 1946
• Appendixes. A chronology of the Triangle Fire (1900-2011) ; Questions for consideration.

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Publication date 2016 Copyright date 2016 Series The Bedford series in history and culture ISBN 1319048854 (pbk.) 9781319048853 (pbk.)