Triangle fire at last has a monument

For years, when I brought tour groups to the Brown Building (formerly the Asch Building) at Greene St. and Washington Place ...

Unions have long lost their Triangle Fire momentum

Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of our columnist’s grandfather – and 145 others perished in the 1911 factory blaze ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

On March 25, 1911, 146 workers perished when a fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. For 90 years, it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. Bettmann/CORBIS On March 25, ...
insider.si.edu

The Triangle Fire : a brief history with documents / [edited by] Jo Ann E. Argersinger, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Part One. Introduction: The fire that changed America. The garment industry and its workers ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand" ; The Triangle tragedy : grief and outrage ; "The fire that ...
The Forward

We’re forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, March 25, 1911, they could not know that their lives would soon be extinguished ...