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Triangle Fire : A Brief History with Documents by Jo Ann Argersinger (2009, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBedford/Saint Martin's
ISBN-100312464525
ISBN-139780312464523
eBay Product ID (ePID)69717749
Product Key Features
Number of Pages142 Pages
Publication NameTriangle Fire : a Brief History with Documents
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
SubjectLabor & Industrial Relations, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry, Fire Science
TypeTextbook
AuthorJo Ann Argersinger
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight6.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.9 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2008-933721
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal974.71041
Table Of ContentForeword Preface List of Illustrations PART ONE INTRODUCTION: THE FIRE THAT CHANGED AMERICA Fashioning a New Industry: "The Shirtwaist Kings" and the Factory System Working "Girls" in the Garment Industry Triangle and the "Uprising of Twenty Thousand" "Fire!": The Triangle Tragedy "The Day it Rained Children": Grief, Outrage, and Reform The Trial: 146 Dead but "Nobody Guilty" Epilogue: The "Fire that Lit the Nation" PART TWO THE DOCUMENTS The Triangle Waist Company in the Asch Building 1. Arthur E. McFarlane , Fire and the Skyscraper: The Problem of Protecting Workers in New York''s Tower Factories , September 1911 2. Regularity of Employment in the Women''s Ready-to-Wear Garment Industries , October 1915 3. Pearl Goodman and Elsa Ueland , The Shirtwaist Trade, December 1910 The Sewing Girls at Work and Play 4. Rose Cohen , Out of the Shadow 5. Sadie Frowne , The Story of a Sweatshop Girl, September 1902 6. Clara Lemlich , Life in the Shop The "Great Uprising" - The Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910 7. The New York Times , Arrest Strikers for Being Assaulted, November 1909 8. The Survey , Strike of the Lady Shirtwaist Makers, November 1909 9. Constance D. Leupp , The Shirtwaist Makers'' Strike, December 1909 10. The New York Times, Girl Strikers Tell the Rich their Woes, December 1909 11. Allan L. Benson , Women in a Labor War: How the Working girls of New York East Side Have Learned to Use Men''s Weapons in a Struggle for Better Conditions, April 1910 12. The New York Times , Church to the Aid of Girl Strikers, December 1909 13. The New York Times , Mrs. Belmont on Girl''s Bond, December 1909 14. The New York Times , Pickets from Prison are Guests of Honor, December 1909 15. Mary Brown Sumner , The Spirit of the Strikers, January 1910 16. William Mailly , The Working Girls'' Strike, December 1909 17. The Uprising of the Twenty Thousands (Dedicated to the Waistmakers of 1909) , 1910 The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - March 25, 1911 18. The New York World , The Triangle Fire, March 1911 19. Chicago Daily Tribune , New York Fire Kills 148, March 1911 20. The New York Times , Partners'' Account of the Disaster, March 1911 21. Rosey Safran, The Washington Place Fire, April 1911 Grief and Outrage 22. The New York Times , Sad All-Day March to Morgue Gates, March 1911 23. The New York Times , Doors Were Locked Say Rescued Girls, March 1911 24. The New York Times , Faint in a Frenzy over Tales of Fire, March 1911 25. The New York Times , Mass Meeting Calls for New Fire Laws, April 1911 26. The New York Times , 120,000 Pay Tribute to the Fire Victims, April 1911 27. Martha Bensley Bruere , The Triangle Fire Investigations and Reform 28. Report of the Red Cross, Emergency Relief after the Washington Place Fire: New York, March 25, 1911, 1912 29. Elizabeth Dutcher , Budgets of the Triangle Fire Victims, September 1912 30. The New York Times , Many Now Tell of Fire Traps, March 1911 31. State of New York , Preliminary Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1912, Volume III, 1912 32. Alfred A. Smith , Up to Now: An Autobiography, 1929 The Trial of the Triangle Owners 33. The Outlook , Indictments in the Asch Fire Case, April 1911 34. The New York Times , Enraged Women Mob Triangle Waist Men, 1937 35. Chicago Daily Tribune , What the Grave Covers , September 1913 36. The New York Times , Settle Triangle Fire Suits , March 1914 Appendixes A Chronology of Key Events in the History of the Triangle Fire (1901-2001) Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Relevant Websites Index
SynopsisIn 1911, a fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City claimed the lives of 146 workers, mainly young immigrant women, who either leaped to their deaths or were trapped in the blaze by locked doors and inadequate fire escapes. The tragedy brought national attention to the unsafe working conditions, long hours, and low pay that had prompted a national garment workers' strike a year before. Jo Ann Argersinger's volume examines the context, trajectory, and impact of this Progressive Era event. An introduction explores the demands industrialization placed upon urban working women, their fight to unionize, and the Triangle fire's significance in the greater scope of labor reform. Documents from newspaper reports to the personal stories of labor agitators and fire survivors continue the story, giving voice to the girl strikers, their enemies and upper-class allies in the effort to reform the garment industry, and the public outrage that followed the fire. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index enrich students' understanding of this historical moment., In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City claimed the lives of 146 workers, mainly young immigrant women, who either leaped to their deaths or were trapped in the blaze by locked doors and inadequate fire escapes. The tragedy brought national attention to the unsafe working conditions, long hours, and low pay that had prompted a national garment workers' strike a year before. Jo Ann Argersinger's volume examines the context, trajectory, and impact of this Progressive Era event. An introduction explores the demands industrialization placed upon urban working women, their fight to unionize, and the Triangle fire's significance in the greater scope of labor reform. Documents from newspaper reports to the personal stories of labor agitators and fire survivors continue the story, giving voice to the "girl strikers," their enemies and upper-class allies in the effort to reform the garment industry, and the public outrage that followed the fire. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index enrich students' understanding of this historical moment.
LC Classification NumberHD9940.U5N89 2009
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