Messke Soden US History in A Global Context Section 1 October 4th, 2015 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: How A Tragedy Can Be Educational The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire is among the worst workplace and labor disasters not only this country has seen but also the world. On the 25th day of March, 1911, fire started on the eighth floor of Asch Building, the floor itself the first of three floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Soon panic started, as two hundred and thirty workers on the eighth floor
As business during 1870 - 1899 stride to grow their company, big businesses oath to take them down and make them bankrupt. Society in this Gilded Age tried to find a way in which they could make it big and be wealthy like the other wealthiest. The big businesses during the Gilded Age strongly influenced the society it lives apon by value of supply like food, how the worker were treated at work, and how they made some fortunate people wealthy. During this era, many people including young kids went
The Triangle Fire was one of the worst workplace disasters in history up until the attacks on the world trade center on September 11, 2001. Flesh and Blood So Cheap by Albert Marrin tells about the conditions that the workers had to face, and the fire that sparked such a great conversity that worker rights were forever changed. Most of the non-fiction text deals with a lot of explicit and implicit details about the fire, all regarding the mistakes of the owner that lead up to the deaths of 146 workers
Progressive era and Modern Era Reforms Comparative Essay By: Haley Kowalczyk, Through the years people have developed, and still are today. The Progressive era and The modern era may have differences and similarities. Some similarities are workers, safety, women, and manufacturing. In the 1900’s workers came from all around the world. The process of coming into the country was very difficult because they had to go through the process of being searched and questioned. Now a days its the same