The 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, and galvanized the U.S. labor movement. By Lola Fadulu The Triangle Shirtwaist ...

(Left) Firefighters dousing the flames at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City, on March 25, 1911. (Right) People walk past the Asch building 100 years later, on March 24, 2011.

In all, 146 workers, most of them immigrant young women and girls, perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. For 90 years it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. This story ...

Three plaques commemorate the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in Greenwich Village that killed 146 workers in 1911, catalyzing landmark workplace safety laws and transforming the labor movement.

But to communicate the importance of collective action, she reached back in time — specifically, back to the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. Talking to a Ukrainian coworker at her store ...

worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Bess called in sick on the day that a horrific fire tore through the garment factory. Celia died, along with 145 others. The tragedy transformed U.S ...

History remembers the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory fire in New York City as one of the most infamous American industrial incidents. A fire broke out in the factory on March 25 ...

At a trial of the factory’s owners afterward ... It just shows that the Triangle Shirtwaist fire still has lessons to impart, Bass said. “We forget a tragedy like this at our own peril ...