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Triangle : Fire That Changed America - 03 edition

by David Von Drehle

Triangle : Fire That Changed America (ISBN10: 080214151X; ISBN13: 9780802141514)
ISBN13: 978-0802141514
ISBN10: 080214151X

Summary: On a beautiful spring day, March 25, 1911, workers were preparing to leave the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village when a fire started. Within minutes it consumed the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside. The final toll was 146--123 of them women. It was the worst disaster in New York City history until September 11, 2001. Harrowing yet compulsively readable, Triangle is bo ...show moreth a chronicle of the fire and a vibrant portrait of an entire age. Waves of Jewish and Italian immigrants inundated New York in the early years of the century, filling its slums and supplying its garment factories with cheap, mostly female labor.

Protesting their Dickensian work conditions, forty thousand women bravely participated in a massive shirtwaist workers' strike that brought together an unlikely coalition of socialists, socialites, and suffragettes. Von Drehle orchestrates these events into a drama rich in suspense and filled with memorable characters. Most powerfully, he puts a human face on the men and women who died, and shows how the fire dramatically transformed politics and gave rise to urban liberalism. ...show less

Edition/Copyright: 03
Cover: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, Inc.
Published: 09/09/2004

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On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a treacherous fire broke out in the Triangle's shirtwaist factory in Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the b ...show moreuilding's upper three floors. One-hundred-and-forty-six people - 123 of them women - died in the worst workplace disaster in New York City - until 9/11. This book is both a chronicle of the fire and a vibrant portrait of an entire age, following the waves of Jewish and Italian immigration that inundated New York City in the early years of the 20th century. The book acknowledges the unprecedented alliance between idealistic labor reformers & pragmatic politicians of the Tammany machine. Illus. 340p. ...show less
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