Triangle Factory Fire Essay

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The triangle factory fire To start, the triangle factory, owned by Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, was located top fifth floor of the Asch building. Max Blanck and Isaac Harries was the owner of the shirtwaist factory. They emigrated from Russia and met in New York. Workers were treated like animals from the owners, and bosses don’t fear anything because they’re no government intervention, there’s no labor legislation. A lot of workers went to strike because the hours were too long and there are no minimum wages law, or maximum hours law. There was a vote to increase the pay and decrease the hours of working. Employs managed to accomplish with their goal. More importantly, the fire triangle factory which happened in new york city on march 25,…show more content…
Typically, both are talking about Italian and European Jewish immigrants who had come to the united state with their families and Jews who had escaped persecution in Russia, Alcaniz and Poland to seek a better life. With this in mind, the film and the book together help us see how immigrants were struggling with a new language, culture and suffered for finding a job and how young girls wont just earning money for their clothes, they were earning money to support their family. In the film Annalisa Orleck said, “The prostitutes are out there. They are beating them. The police are watching. They are doing nothing.” being that, there were no government intervention and no labor legislation. In the book the author states “we work in an area where there are many factories, and once, when we are leaving the shop, a group of workers fell on us like hoodlums and beat us (page 299).” Under those circumstance, their only one goal and hope to live the American dream. What brought these immigrants to America, and what motivated them to work such long hours? Immigrants came to America for seeking a better economic opportunity and better life for their children. What happened in the triangle fire was a disaster and
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