A commemoration Tuesday to the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory — which killed 146 workers, transformed the American labor movement, inspired modern building codes and brought about ...

Next week marks the 114th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, a tragedy that claimed the lives of 146 garment workers, primarily women and girls as young as 14 years ...

A little more than a century ago, in the rapidly developing United States of America, nearly 1,000 workers died on the job every week, on average. Collapsed mines buried them alive. Bursting steam ...

On March 25, 1911, 146 workers perished when a fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. For 90 years, it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. Bettmann/CORBIS On March 25, ...

On Saturday, March 25, 1911, 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, died in a factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Although workplace deaths weren’t uncommon in the ...

As calls for immigrants’ rights reverberate throughout the country these days, an upcoming anniversary can serve as a reminder of the consequences for impoverished, immigrant workers when their lives ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The Consumerist has a fascinating post asking whether we’ve really eliminated our Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disasters or if ...

NEW YORK (WCSC) — A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City became one of America’s worst industrial disasters, killing 146 people in less than half an hour. Flames raced through the ...

Prelude : the tragic heart -- Huddled masses -- Into the magic cauldron -- Flesh and blood so cheap -- An overflow of suffering : uprising of the 20,000 -- The third gate : fire at the triangle -- A ...