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📣March 25, 2019, is the 108th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York’s Greenwich Village. This tragedy took the lives of 146 young immigrant garment workers and galvanized a reform movement to raise standards for workers. This incident has had great significance to this day because it highlights the inhumane working conditions to which industrial workers can be subjected. To many, its horrors epitomize the extremes of industrialism. ----------------------------------- #UnionStrong #Unions #TriangleShirtwaistFactory #TriangleShirtwaistFire #TriangleShirtwaist #LaborMovement #UniteHere #AFLCIO (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvcZuC5hOfR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v9djumyfckvt

#Repost @museumofcityny with @repostapp ・・・ #Onthisday in 1911, 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, one of the worst US workplace disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. To many, its horrors epitomize the extremes of industrialism and we can credit its aftermath with many of the regulations that govern industry in America today. On April 11th factory owners Max Blanck and Isaac Harris were indicted by a grand jury on seven counts, including manslaughter in the 2nd degree under section 80 of the Labor Code, which mandated that doors should not be locked during working hours. On December 27, a jury acquitted Blanck and Harris of any wrong-doing since the task of the jurors had been to determine whether the owners knew that the doors were locked at the time of the fire. As a result of the fire, the American Society of Safety Engineers was founded in New York City on October 14, 1911. The last living survivor of the fire was Rose Freedman, who died in 2001 at the age of 107. She was two days away from her 18th birthday at the time of the fire. The fire and the resulting labor activism are covered in our #ActivistNY exhibition and stay tunes for more museum programs about labor activism coming soon. #NYCHistory #otd #history #laborhistory #triangleshirtwaist . . . X2010.7.1.10568 Wurts Bros. (New York, N.Y.) Asch Building, fire scene. DATE:1911 Photograph taken March 30, 1911, five days after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.