See you in the streets : art, action, and remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire / Ruth Sergel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sergel, Ruth, author.

Series:

Humanities and public life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911.

Triangle Shirtwaist Company.

Community arts projects.

Memorialization.

Social aspects.

Clothing factories.

Industrial safety.

History.

New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Clothing factories--New York (State)--New York--Safety measures--History--20th century.

Memorialization--Social aspects.

Community arts projects--New York (State)--New York.

Clothing factories--Safety measures.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 209 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Art, action, and remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]

Summary:

In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City took the lives of 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women and girls. Their deaths galvanized a movement for social and economic justice then, but today's laborers continue to battle dire working conditions. How can we bring the lessons of the Triangle fire back into practice today? For artist Ruth Sergel, the answer was to fuse art, activism, and collective memory to create a large-scale public commemoration that invites broad participation and incites civic engagement. See You in the Streets showcases her work. It all began modestly in 2004 with Chalk, an invitation to all New Yorkers to remember the 146 victims of the fire by inscribing their names and ages in chalk in front of their former homes. This project inspired Sergel to found the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, a broad alliance of artists and activists, universities and unions--more than 250 partners nationwide--to mark the 2011 centennial of the infamous blaze. Putting the coalition together and figuring what to do and how to do it were not easy. This book provides a lively account of the unexpected partnerships, false steps, joyous collective actions, and sustainability of such large public works. Much more than an object lesson from the past, See You in the Streets offers an exuberant perspective on building a social art practice and doing public history through argument and agitation, creativity and celebration with an engaged public. -- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Postcard: I Would Be a Traitor to Those Poor Burned Bodies / Rose Schneiderman Schneiderman, Rose 1

Postcard: What We Celebrate, Why We Celebrate / Esther Cohen Cohen, Esther 3

Welcome 5

The Fire 9

Postcard: Leon Stein and The Triangle Fire / Cheryl Reredo Reredo, Cheryl 17

Chalk 21

Postcard: Chalk's Visual Histories / Ellen Wiley Todd Todd, Ellen Wiley 27

Craft 31

Postcard: Lessons to Be Learned from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire / Adrienne Audi Sosin Sosin, Adrienne Audi, Joel Sosmsky Sosmsky, Joel 37

Voices of 9.11 41

Postcard: Reform from Tragedy / Richard A. Greenwald Greenwald, Richard A. 49

Start Your Engines 53

Postcard: Postcard from the Revolution and Its Sad Aftermath / Annelise Orleck Orleck, Annelise 63

Solidarity 67

Postcard: The Garment Workers' Union and the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition / May Y. Chen Chen, May Y., Sherry Kane Kane, Sherry 75

Radical Tolerance 79

Postcard: Guide to Accessible Event Planning by Emma Rosenthal 89

Fair Exchange 91

Postcard: Making Space for Conversation / Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani Bendiner-Viani, Gabrielle, Kaushik Panchal, Buscada Buscada, Kaushik Panchal, 97

Leadership 101

Postcard: Ancestral Imperatives / Annie Rachele Lansillotto Lansillotto, Annie Rachele 109

Difficult Memory 113

Postcard: In Memory / Suzanne Pred Bass Bass, Suzanne Pred 121

Memorial 125

Postcard: At the Corner of Washington Place and Greene / Mary Anne Trasciatti Trasciatti, Mary Anne 133

Sustainability (A Rant) 135

Postcard: The Treasurer's Lament / Sheryl Woodruff Woodruff, Sheryl 145

Acts of Return 153

Postcard: Art Is the Path from Reality to the Soul / LuLu LoLo LoLo, LuLu 159

The Centennial 163

Postcard: Riding Memory / Elissa Sampson Sampson, Elissa 169

See You in the Streets 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.

American Book Awards, Winner, 2017

ISBN:

9781609384173

1609384172

OCLC:

921240491