Economic Dignity
by Gene Sperling · 14 Sep 2020 · 667pp · 149,811 words
her role leading the New York office of the National Consumers League. On that day, Perkins heard commotion and cries for help coming from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and ran to the scene, where she witnessed the “horrifying spectacle”31 of more than fifty young female workers forced to jump to their
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heat and the weight of workers trying to flee.34 It was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in New York City’s history. The Triangle Shirtwaist disaster could in no way be described as an unforeseeable accident or misfortune. The workers in New York City’s garment industry had long tried
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the end of the strike, 85 percent of the city’s shirtwaist workers had joined the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU),35 but the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory remained anti-union.36 At the time, New York, like most states, had new factory safety laws on the books, but they were rarely
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, fire escapes, and sprinkler systems [in New York] . . . followed ‘only where practicable.’”37 The Fire Department of the City of New York had cited the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory multiple times for failing to provide sufficient fire escapes, yet had taken no meaningful action against the owners.38 Following the tragic fire, a
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Perkins later said that the legislation in New York was a “turning point” in “American political attitudes and policies towards social responsibility,” and described the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire as “the day the New Deal was born.”41 Later, in her role as secretary of labor, Perkins led the agency to create
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-horror/. 33. Brooks, “How the First Woman in the U.S. Cabinet Found Her Vocation.” 34. Hadassa Kosak, “Triangle Shirtwaist Fire,” Jewish Women’s Archive, accessed November 10, 2019, https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/triangle-shirtwaist-fire. 35. Tony Michels, “Uprising of 20,000 (1909),” Jewish Women’s Archive, accessed November 10, 2019, https
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-20000-1909. 36. Peter Dreier and Donald Cohen, “The Fire Last Time,” New Republic, March 11, 2011, https://newrepublic.com/article/85134/wisconsin-unions-walker-triangle-shirtwaist-fire. 37. Thomas R. Layton and Einer R. Elhauge, “U.S., Fire Catastrophes of the 20th Century,” Journal of Burn Care & Research 3, no. 1
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, 289 Toyota Production System, 238–39 Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), 142–43, 165–66, 329n trade policies, 122–26, 135, 144–46 Trebesch, Christoph, 295 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 69–70 Triumph of Injustice, The (Saez and Zucman), 123, 124 Triumph Services, 214 Truman, Harry S., 29 Trumka, Richard, 250, 251 Trump
We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
by Annelise Orleck · 27 Feb 2018 · 382pp · 107,150 words
, was a critical moment. Hundreds poured into the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Many famous political figures had spoken in the column-lined auditorium during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, President Abraham
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far. They also needed enforceable labor law. That need was indelibly burned into the national consciousness on March 25, 1911, when a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, in the heart of Greenwich Village, took 146 young workers’ lives. In a terrible half hour, thousands watched as young people jumped to their
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close and move to Bangladesh,” his members have been told anytime they ask for raises.3 It took an unbearable tragedy, a twenty-first-century Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, to make Bangladeshi workers finally, painfully, visible to the world. On April 24, 2013, the twenty-first-century garment industry was literally shaken
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, 84; Walmart workers, 105 Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act, 124 transnational organizing efforts, 54 Transport Workers Union, 242–43 TransWorld Security Forces, 212–13 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York City, 37–39, 41 Triqui farmers, 15, 221 Trump, Donald: dismantling of immigrant and women’s rights, 70; dismantling of social
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
by Sofi Thanhauser · 25 Jan 2022 · 592pp · 133,460 words
.” On November 22, 1909, there was an overflow audience crowded in Cooper Union’s Great Hall. In late September, three hundred women workers from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory had gone on strike, and were holding the picket line daily in the cold. While cops turned their backs, paid off with a hundred
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occurring daily in the park. When the strike ended in February 1910, union contracts had been signed at nearly every shop, although not at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), which had been formed in 1900, but whose membership had languished, exploded in size and strength. Two
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years later, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burst into flames, killing 146 garment workers. This ushered in a new and triumphant era in the battle against sweatshops. Three months after the
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to unionize. More radical still, however, was what the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union would accomplish. The ILGWU gained in size and stature after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and it adopted a strategy that would give responsibility for factory conditions to those who designed, purchased, and sold the garments produced by
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, 218–19 see also imports to U.S. trading posts, Navajo, 282–83 transgender identities, Navajo, 287 Treaty of Shimonoseki, 114 Trevelyan, Sir Charles, 64 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 174, 175, 176 twill weaves, 109, 278 Two-Spirit trans identity, 287 U Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 12, 26–27 Ulster Scots, 13 undergarments, 23
Born in Flames
by Bench Ansfield · 15 Aug 2025 · 366pp · 138,787 words
and far from the fray of Wall Street. History teaches us that arson can be an indicator of macroeconomic flux. A week after 1911’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, trade unionist Rose Schneiderman bellowed to an audience of mourners, “The life of men and women is so cheap, and property is so
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broad currency. The Triangle fire was a watershed in American politics, galvanizing a reform movement that, in turn, helped catalyze the New Deal.16 The Triangle Shirtwaist conflagration is remembered for unearthing contradictions that seethed under the surface of a nascent Fordism, the regime of mass production and mass consumption that drove
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non-unionized and often migrant-based labor force, and pushed by the newly sacrosanct injunction to prioritize shareholder value above all else.17 If the Triangle Shirtwaist fire helped seed the New Deal order, the legacy of the 1970s inferno is one of unfinished struggle and ongoing immiseration. In the flames we
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–605. See also Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009), 183–88. 16For Schneiderman quotation and background on Triangle Shirtwaist, see Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 723. Wallace writes that
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Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017). 17Though the symbolism of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire was tied to the rise of Fordism, it is important to note that New York City was never a capital of American Fordism in
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rent control in, 64–65 structural arsons in (1968-1984), 214 subprime lending in, 258 and tax-lien legislation, 207–10 tenant activism in, 64 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in, 10–11 in triangular trade, 136, 142, 149 uninvestigated arsons in, 76 New York City Arson Strike Force. See Arson Strike Force
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, of fire survivors, 48–49, 104–15 Travelers Insurance Company, 27, 30, 33, 212, 212, 252 Tremont Avenue (Bronx), 102; see also East Tremont neighborhood Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 10–11 triangular trade, 13, 135–37, 136, 139–43, 145, 149, 158, 254 tribunalization, 147 Truman, Harry S., and administration, 44 Trump
The Rough Guide to New York City
by Martin Dunford · 2 Jan 2009
University buildings, although even nonstudents will be interested in the university’s innovative Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square E (Tues, Thurs & Fri 105 The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire THE WE S T V I L L AGE One of New York’s most infamous tragedies occurred on March 25, 1911, at the
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corner of Washington Place and Greene Street, when a fire started on the eighth floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist garment factory, one of the city’s most notorious sweatshops. A terrible combination of flammable fabrics, locked doors, collapsing fire escapes, and the inability of
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worked in sweatshops for the city’s growing, notoriously exploitative garment industry. Although workers began to strike for better pay and conditions, it took the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (see p.106) to rouse public and civic conscience; within months the state passed 56 factory-reform measures, and unionization spread through the
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......................... 33–35 Tower of Freedom .......... 55 & New York Architecture color section trains...................19, 23, 24 transit information .......... 23 travel agents.............22, 23 travel insurance .............. 36 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire ...........................106, 436 Tribeca...................... 71–74 Tribeca ........................... 72 W Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ...................124, 134, 281 Walker, Jimmy ......108, 436 477 I ND E X | 478
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
by Robert D. Putnam · 12 Oct 2020 · 678pp · 160,676 words
markedly from their more privileged counterparts, and they often faced extremely adverse working conditions, as exemplified by the devastating fire at the New York City Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911, which took the lives of 146 people, most of them immigrant women and girls. The fight for better pay and conditions for
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women at an apartment just off Washington Square when she heard an uproar on the street below. The ladies all rushed outside to find the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, just across the plaza, ablaze. Perkins ran to the factory, in the vain hope of offering some kind of help. Hundreds of workers were
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for more humane working conditions, and a remedy to the very safety concerns that caused the fire. They had been met with violent resistance. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire was a turning point in Frances Perkins’s moral formation, which awakened her to the urgency of fighting for reform. Though her experiences at
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immigration reform and, 82, 222, 297–98, 300 income equality and, 45 I-we-I curve and, 296–98 religion and, 128–29, 132–33 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (1911), 247, 320 Immigration Act (1924), 222, 297 Immigration and Nationality Act (1965), 297–98, 300 Implicit Association Test (IAT), 380–81n86 income
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trade trade unions, see unions transportation: automobile, 24, 25, 80, 355n7 in the first Gilded Age (late 1800s), 2–3, 6 Transue, John E., 158 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (1911), 247, 320 Trilling, Lionel, 165 Truman, Harry, 52 election of 1948 and, 79, 91, 230, 372–73n17 Republican approval of, 91–92
What's the Matter with White People
by Joan Walsh · 19 Jul 2012 · 284pp · 85,643 words
of the Lower East Side, Smith was propelled from state Assembly majority leader to national renown by the galvanizing tragedy of the Progressive era: the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of March 1911. He would become a pivotal figure in the creation of New Deal policy as well as New Deal politics. FDR
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York City 1960s activism and as police September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Smith and Wright on See also race relations Isserman, Maurice Italian Americans, Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire and Jack and Jill Politics Jackson, Jesse, Jr. Jackson, Rev. Jesse Jealous, Benjamin Jefferson, Thomas Jewish Americans African American-Jewish relations assimilation of
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on New York City civilian review board Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire and “job creators” Johnson, Lyndon Civil Rights Act death of events leading to 1968 election and Great Society Hillary Clinton on Civil Rights
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and events leading to 1968 election and Hard Hat Riot and Lindsay and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaints Nixon and Reagan and Steamfitters’ Union Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire (March 1911) 2008 primaries See also individual names of labor unions Lacy, Dean LaPierre, Wayne Latinos African American–Latino relations hierarchy of immigrants
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and Palin and race relations and Terry, Peggy They Were White and They Were Slaves Thurmond, Strom Tiller, George Time Traister, Rebecca Transport Workers Union Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire (March 1911) Truly Disadvantaged, The (Wilson) Trumka, Richard Trump, Donald Twomey, Jack Tyler, Gus Tyson, Neil DeGrasse unemployment George W. Bush on Moynihan
Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy
by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle · 12 Mar 2019 · 349pp · 98,309 words
job isn’t anything new. The neighborhood where I conducted my research was within walking distance of the Asch Building, home of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, in which 143 young women and men perished. The fire was one of the largest workplace accidents in US history and is often
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and Wisconsin passed comprehensive workers’ compensation laws, but the true movement toward workplace protections and compensation for injury didn’t occur until the March 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.8 In the year after the fire, nine other states passed regulations, followed by thirty-six others before the decade was done. In
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strikes, 68–70; early strikes, 64; 19th century strikes, 65–66, 67, 68; piecemeal system, 68; ten-hour workdays, 65; textile industry and, 66–67; Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911, 92, 93, 226–27n3, 227n8; unionization attempts, 64–65, 93; workers’ compensation, 92–94 anonymity, 23, 48, 91, 156 apps, 2
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Tonnie, Ferdinand, 32 tool libraries, 26 Trader Joe’s, 190 Tradesy, 9 traditional employment, 184, 190 Traity, 29 travel time, 15 Treaty of Detroit, 177 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911, 92, 93, 226–27n3, 227n8 TripAdvisor, 30 trust: Airbnb and, 30; decreasing rate of, 33; problems and, 46–47; trust-and
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unexotic underclass, 231n4 unicorns (startups), 2 unionization: overview, 6, 23; deregulation and, 178; early attempts at, 64–65; gig economy workers and, 71–72, 94; Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 and, 227n8; Wagner Act of 1935, 70; worker benefits and, 71, 177–78 United Mine Workers Union, 69 unpaid work: overview
The Road to Character
by David Brooks · 13 Apr 2015 · 353pp · 110,919 words
there was a fire near the square. The ladies ran out. Perkins lifted up her skirts and sprinted toward it. They had stumbled upon the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, one of the most famous fires in American history. Perkins could see the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the building ablaze and dozens
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. The water from its hoses could barely reach that high, just enough to give the building exterior a light dousing. Shame The horror of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire traumatized the city. People were not only furious at the factory owners, but felt some deep responsibility themselves. In 1909 a young Russian immigrant
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having their values in deep harmony with their behavior. They experience a wonderful certainty of action that banishes weariness from even the hardest days. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire wasn’t the only event that defined Frances Perkins’s purpose in life, but it was a major one. This horror had been
Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
by Jamie K. McCallum · 15 Nov 2022 · 349pp · 99,230 words
chain of hide puller machine.” “Employee killed when head crushed by conveyor.” “Caught and killed by gut-cooker machine.”18 The modern slaughterhouse is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of the heartland. At the JBS plant where Tin worked—which slaughters 5,400 head of cattle daily—gory industrial accidents and deaths are
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Perkins, then thirty-one, was having tea at a friend’s house when she heard commotion from the street outside. A blaze had engulfed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory down the street, and Ms. Perkins gathered up her skirts and ran toward the smoke. When she arrived, workers, mostly young women, were gathered
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that their living enemies recognize their potency even today, decades after their deaths. In March 2011, almost one hundred years to the day after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Maine’s anti-union Republican governor Paul LePage removed a thirty-six-foot-wide mural from Augusta’s Department of Labor’s building
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