A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killed 146 people on this day in history, March 25, 1911 — and ushered in a host of new workplace safety reforms. The fire broke out on the ...

On March 25, 1911 a devastating inferno consumed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's lower Manhattan. There, 146 workers – mostly young immigrant women – either perished or jumped to their ...

She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life to worker safety. By Douglas Martin To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of ...

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 the ...

Marchers remember the 146 victims of the shirtwaist factory fire of 1911, commonly called the Triangle fire, during its 100th anniversary commemoration Friday in New York, in March 2011. Associated ...

I wonder what my Great Aunt Fannie would think of today’s American workplace, with a percolating revival of its labor movement. On March 25, 1911, Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of my ...

History remembers the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory fire in New York City as one of the most infamous American industrial incidents. A fire broke out in the factory on March 25, 1911, and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques pointing out that it was the ...