Triangle fire at last has a monument

For years, when I brought tour groups to the Brown Building (formerly the Asch Building) at Greene St. and Washington Place ...

Unions have long lost their Triangle Fire momentum

Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of our columnist’s grandfather – and 145 others perished in the 1911 factory blaze ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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, ...
The Forward on MSNOpinion

We’re forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, Mar. 25, ...
THE CITY on MSN

Once a sweatshop, now a lab for life: Studying inside the Triangle Shirtwaist site

Inside a building in Greenwich Village, NYU Ph.D. and postdoctoral students follow a familiar routine. They take the elevator ...
New Jersey City University

146 Names: How We Remember the Triangle Fire

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Greenwich Village, New York. The top three ...
LaborPress

Workers and Community Gather to Commemorate 115th Anniversary of the Triangle Fire

The NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Workers United, SEIU, and the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, hosted the 115th Anniversary Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on ...
insider.si.edu

The Triangle Fire : a brief history with documents / [edited by] Jo Ann E. Argersinger, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Part One. Introduction: The fire that changed America. The garment industry and its workers ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand" ; The Triangle tragedy : grief and outrage ; "The fire that ...