In 1911, demonstrators protested following the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. RBM Vintage Images / Alamy Stock Photo Editor's Note, December 21, 2018: After receiving ...

The Greenwich Village fire in 1911 caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, ... – As the 100th anniversary of the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire approaches, ...

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 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a day of infamy,” says historian Lewis Lehrmman. “It reminds us that the role of government, while limited, must be to ensure public safety.

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 ...

In all, 146 workers, most of them immigrant young women and girls, perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. For 90 years it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster.

110 years since the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, ... Barber took Amazon's Jeff Bezos to task for trying to use his commitment of gifting $10 million to African American causes "to show he is ...

A deadly fire ripped through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village on March 25, 1911. The photo shows the gutted remains of the tenth floor, with only the floors and walls intact.

The event will honor the 146 victims of the tragic fire and 2018 awardees, including Paola Corso, author of award winning works on steelworkers and garment workers, Sondra E. McGill, the Triangle ...

Almost a century after that infamous Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, in an eerily similar role, Ott would experience the tragedy of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.