The fire started just as quitting time, in a corner of the eighth floor. Various causes have been ascribed-an explosion, an overheated pulley, a cigarette thrown into a pile of filmy shirtwaist ...

South Korea’s Hidden Workforce: Factory Fire That Killed 20 Shines Spotlight on Foreign Migrant Labor Blast looks likely to trigger investigations on the conditions under which foreigners work in ...

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.

Governor Hochul: the deaths of 146 people at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire galvanized the state into creating laws to protect workers. Yet too many remain unprotected.

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 ...

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 ...

It was the afternoon of Saturday, March 25, 1911, when a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. One hundred and forty six people died, the ...

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.