March 25, 1911 started off like any other Saturday at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. It was the final day of the six-day standard work week in the New York City sweatshops where mentally exhausting ...

Three plaques commemorate the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in Greenwich Village that killed 146 workers in 1911, catalyzing landmark workplace safety laws and transforming the labor movement. But ...

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

Fire hoses spray water on the upper floors of the Asch Building (housing the Triangle Shirtwaist Company) on Washington and Greene Streets, during the fire in New York City, March 25, 1911. (Photo by ...

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 ...

The American labor movement as we know it today in fact rose from the ashes of a New York City garment factory fire that killed 146 workers more than a century ago. The Asche building at 23 Washington ...

The Triangle Fire Memorial has been years in the making. The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition held an international competition to design a memorial in 2013. Out of the nearly 180 submissions sent ...

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 ...

Death on the job was a routine hazard for American workers a century ago. About 100 workers, on average, died every day as mines collapsed, ships sank, trains crashed and factories burned. Nearly all ...