Ep 93 - Disaster at Shift's End: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | Doomed to Fail

This is THE Women's History Month story that Taylor has been wanting to tell you! At the end of the shift on Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory near Washington Square in New York City. Within a few minutes, three floors and the stairwells would be consumed by fire; within 12 minutes, over 60 people had jumped to their deaths to avoid the flames, and within 30 mins, 146 people were dead. Most were immigrant women who had been working for pennies in unsafe conditions for years.

Join us for this tragedy that leads to workplace changes and labor reform in the US.

Sources:

List of YA books- https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/86086.Textile_Mills_in_YA_Middle_Grade_Fiction

Francis Perkins Leture - https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/lectures/FrancesPerkinsLecture.html

Rose Schneiderman - https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schneiderman-rose

Stuff you missed in history - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-missed-in-histor-21124503/episode/fire-at-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-30208427/

Flames of labor reform -

https://www.amazon.com/Triangle-Shirtwaist-Factory-Fire-Disasters/dp/0766017850

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