On March 25, 1911, at the end of a six-day, 52-hour workweek, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building near closing time. Six hundred workers were in the ...

It’s featured on Sundays. Triangle Waist Co.’s owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, were at the peak of their success as shirtwaist manufacturers when a fire broke out on March 25, 1911 at ...

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire—which killed 146 garment workers—shocked the public and galvanized the labor movement. Fire hoses spray the upper floors of the Asch Building ...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on March 25, 1911, remains one of the greatest workplace tragedies in American history. The deaths of 146 garment workers in New York City — most of them young ...

A beautiful spring afternoon in New York City turned tragic when a factory fire broke out on the top floors of a Greenwich Village building on March 25, 1911. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory ...

Again, most of the victims were young immigrants. The scenes were horrific. In the Triangle fire, many women, trapped behind locked doors and faced by an inferno fueled by fabric dust and ...

It remains a critically important agency in the lives of working Americans. The Triangle Fire of March 25, 1911, destroyed hundreds of lives — both those who died and their families. Sadly ...

New Yorkers whose ancestors died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire will march with heavy hearts today in Greenwich Village to mark the 100th anniversary of one of the city’s darkest days.

While many factories reached a union agreement with workers to improve conditions, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory did not. On March 25, as the workday was ending, a fire broke out on the 8th floor.

A memorial honoring the 146 people who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 became a reality on Wednesday, more than 100 years after the plight of garment workers trapped inside a ...