Why the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Makes for a Complicated History Charged with manslaughter, the owners were acquitted in December 1911. A Smithsonian curator reexamines the labor and ...

110 years since the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, its lessons are still unlearned The mistreatment of essential workers during the pandemic speaks to our nation's persistent labor crisis ...

The Greenwich Village fire in 1911 caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, most of whom were immigrant women.

In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist clothing factory caused 146 deaths, mostly immigrant girls and women. The New York City disaster eventually galvanized the U.S. labor movement to protect ...

March 19, 2011 | Clip Of The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN.

But the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire had just begun. If the fire had started just minutes later, the workers would have been gone, and possibly no one would have died.

A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killed 146 people on this day in history, March 25, 1911 — leading to a host of worker safety reforms.

The 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, and galvanized the U.S. labor movement.

The author behind the authoritative retelling of the 1911 fire describes how he researched the tragedy that killed 146 people ...

The month of March has seen some of the worst tragedies in the history of the U.S. Fire Service, including the Strand Theatre fire, the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and the ...