Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of 1911

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City in 1911, as well as the legislative and cultural impact of the fire. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical and cultural context in which the fire took place and the facts of the incident and then to discuss the fire's influence on American attitudes toward industrial and trade-union activity as well as on changes in the law affecting employer behavior and employee safety.

The nascent American trade-union movement in the waning years of the Progressive Era and the significant gap between rich and poor in that period loom in the background of the Triangle fire. Even though much of the power behind the extraordinary growth in material wealth in the U.S. was concentrated in the industrial east and in pockets of prosperity in the west, the.."

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