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 ...

HISTORY – It has been 115 years since the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy, which saw 146 factory workers die due to what was later found to be a lack of safety features and locked doors within the ...

Family members, labor leaders and government officials honored the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire that broke out in Greenwich Village in 1911. The blaze killed 146 people. Pete ...

When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, March 25, 1911, they could not know that their lives would soon be extinguished ...