the triangle shirtwaist factory fre; a reasearch paper; labor laws of the early 1900s and reforms that followed a tragedy
Title: the triangle shirtwaist factory fre; a reasearch paper; labor laws of the early 1900s and reforms that followed a tragedy
Category: /History/North American History
Details: Words: 1927 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
the triangle shirtwaist factory fre; a reasearch paper; labor laws of the early 1900s and reforms that followed a tragedy
Category: /History/North American History
Details: Words: 1927 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
On the morning of March 25, 1911, five-hundred women and children went to work in the Asch building where the Triangle Shirtwaist Company was located in New York City. By the end of that day, only 350 would walk out alive. At 4:40 in the afternoon, a pile of scrap material caught fire on the eighth floor cutting room (Jackson). The fire quickly spread to the ninth and tenth floors also occupied by the company. Although 146 people lost their …showed first 75 words of 1927 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1927 total…Milton. Bread and Roses. New York: Random House, 1967.
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