Shirtwaist

Second, the fire of the Iroquois Theatre is another example of a tragic event that helped pave the way for new codes to be established. On December 30, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois, many people gathered to attend the matinee performance at the Iroquois Theatre. During this performance, the theater was filled to maximum capacity; however, no one in the audience could predict that tragedy was about to strike. The fire started backstage when one of the calcium lights sparked a fire in a cluttered space

garment factories. Under the Triangle Shirtwaist Company owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, the women laboring to sew waist skirts were dissatisfied with their terrible working conditions and low wages. While working, the women, made up of mostly poor Italian and Jewish immigrants, would constantly be yelled at and called sexist slurs by bosses and forced to work long, tiring hours for little pay. Tired of these conditions, the workers of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York met in secret to

Nowadays, fire extinguishers would be found in any kind of factory, especially in a garment factory. However none where to be found in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, “An order had gone out to install automatic sprinklers in factories, but the manufacturers had organized to fight it because I meant so great an expenditure.” (Argersinger, 105). Employers were looking for ways to make as much savings

and locked doors. The fire is believed to have started by the careless use of a match from one of the cutters to get a smoke. Before ringing the fire alarm, the workers tried to extinguish the flames, but the flames quickly spread. It was the shirtwaists, hanging on lines about the workers, the sewing machines placed closely together, and the trimmings of cuttings and rags with littered the floors that spread the fire so quickly. Many young women, immigrants who came to the United States seeking

On March 25, 1911, at 4:45 pm there was a fire that broke down at the triangle shirtwaist factory located in NYC Asch Building at 23-29 Washington Street were engulfed in flames. First, the fire started 8th floor and on to the 9th then 10th which was occupied by triangle waist company. Second, the fire killed 146 people and most of them were females between the ages of 15-25 years old. Lastly, the owners Harris and blanck were guilty of this crime in my opinion and the government didn’t help the

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was an infamous part of our history as a nation. The fire began on the eighth floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory and quickly spread all throughout the building. The fire took almost one hundred and fifty lives, most of them being young women or girls. It was not just the fire that took so many lives though, but women and men alike jumping from many stories up, to their death, just to have a possibility to live. However, many women and men alike were brought

in a workplace were very different then it is in the present day. Because of this, many tragedies occurred since that time. On March 25, 1911 at precisely 4:45 p.m. the fire alarm was pulled on the eighth floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory. Being a shirtwaist company, the factory was filled with an abundance of fabric, which was highly flammable. The factory`s workers were mostly young female immigrants of an Italian or Jewish origin. Out of 500 employees that worked in the factory

On a Saturday afternoon in March, a fire broke out on the top couple floors of a building at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. No one could image that a quiet afternoon would turn into a chaos in a moment of time, changing the lives of young workers. The book Triangle the Fire That Changed America is a movingly comprehensive explanation of the 1911 tragedy that shocked the country and changed the course of twentieth-century politics and labor relations. In the first part of the book, David Von Drehle

The tragedy of March 25, 1911 was a crucial turning point and important era of awareness of worker powerlessness during the age of early American industrialization. The fire that consumed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory remains a haunting memory for this nation. The fates of innocent workers sent a wave of grief throughout the entire nation. The victims died as a result of a serious neglect for safety features within the facility and brought widespread attention to the dangerous working conditions

servitude were illegal. While slavery may be deemed as illegal, it still occurs in our modern times, just as it did in the 1800s. This can be seen across our time in exampled such as how blacks were not allowed to vote even after emancipated, triangle shirtwaist company fire, and the way in which we treat those in other countries who are employeed by American companies today. Fredrick douglass himself said after African americans gained freedom, that they were not yet free until they had a say on the