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real life, but this was the fate of the 146 workers who perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Though this was a truly awful event, it brought to light the much-needed change to create safer work environments for workers at that time. This accident sparked strikes and rallies against the garment industry from within both the New York Community, as well as the nation. With the help of unions fighting for this cause,

words were simple, but touching. She encouraged change and wanted it for the others who had survived. She said, ‘‘This is not the first time girls have been burned alive in the city. Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers. Every year thousands of us are maimed. The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death’’(Wikipedia). She was a feminist who worked her life out

seventy workers on the tenth floor. When Clotilde Terranova first immigrated to America from Italy, she was 19 years old. She went to visit her sister in Brooklyn, New York. Three years later, Terranova had been a working as a garment worker on the tenth floor of the Asch Building. She did not know she would have been one of the victims of one of the deadliest industrial fires in the United States.

pushing against them. That means that the doors opened inward and usually, for safety reasons, the doors should open outward so that type of thing doesn’t happen. That means that the owners didn’t take into consideration the escape route that their workers would use. Those details that I just gave are some examples of implicit evidence that Marrin used in Flesh and Blood so

of change of the exploitation of factory workers within America. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, and the key historical events that followed, there were many cultural and political changes in the United States. In the era of the Industrial Revolution, many key historical events created a butterfly effect of change. As a result of the abysmal living and working conditions of the immigrants, pivotal actions by women reformers and women workers improved the lives of girls working in New

overcrowded conditions of garment factories. Conditions were horrid and disaster was inevitable, and disaster did strike in March, 1911. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York set on fire, killing 146 workers. This is an important event in US history because it helped accomplish the tasks unions and strikes had tried to accomplish years earlier, It improved working conditions in factories nationwide and set new safety laws and regulations so that nothing as catastrophic would happen again. The workplace

normally employed about 500 workers, mostly young immigrant women, who worked nine hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays earning 2 dollars for a 14 hour work day. Several events led up to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Incident. Many workers were demanding shorter hours, better pay, and safer shops, so they formed a labor union. However, the owners did not want to succeed to the labor union’s pleads and demands because they were terrified that unions would diminish their authority

A year after shirtwaist workers thought they had won a war, the Triangle Fire proved that it had merely been a battle. Under the Triangle Shirtwaist Company owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, the men and women laboring to sew waist skirts were dissatisfied with their terrible working conditions and low wages. While working, the garment workers, made up of mostly poor Italian and Jewish women immigrants, would constantly be yelled at and called sexist slurs by bosses, and forced to work long, tiring

These workers, mostly young female, Jewish and Italian immigrants from Europe, worked long hours for low wages, half of them were teenagers and small percentages were elderly women. (Kaufman 14) Stated Michael T. Kaufman in the New York Times Article, “Bessie Cohen, 107, Survivor of 1922 Shirtwaist fire, dies.” Approximately 2 years before this horrific fire, demands were being made by the factory workers. According to Kaufman article, 20,000 shirtwaist workers were on a three-month

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire happened on March 25, 1911. The Triangle Fire is remembered as one of the most tragic workplace incidents in the history of Industrial America. This tragic fire killed 146 female factory workers, some as young as age 15. During this time there was many problems with sweatshops and unsafe working conditions, this fire proved those problems to be true. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company was owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris. The company was started by Blanck and Harris