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Triangle : the fire that changed America / David Von Drehle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Von Drehle, David, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911.
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company.
- Fires--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Fires.
- Labor laws and legislation.
- History.
- Clothing factories.
- Industrial safety.
- 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.
- Labor laws and legislation--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Edition:
- First Grove Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Grove Press, [2003]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the building's upper three stories. With ladders too short for a rescue, firemen had to watch in horror, along with hundreds on the street, as desperate workers jumped to their deaths. The final toll was 146 people-123 of them women. It was the worst industrial disaster in New York City history until 9/11.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Misery Lane
- Sprit of the age
- Triangle
- Uprising
- Golden land
- Inferno
- Three minutes
- Fallout
- Reform
- Trial.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 02, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Von Drehle, David, 1961- Triangle.
- ISBN:
- 9780802195258
- 0802195253
- Publisher Number:
- 99985014248
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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