Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 people, most of them young women. Joshua Freeman of The Nation argues that the reason we still ...

New York City Friday marked the 100th anniversary of one of its worst disasters: A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory that killed 146 people, mostly young women. The city's unions used the ...

White horses and a flower-laden carriage led a silent mourning procession on April 5, 1911, for the unidentified victims of the Triangle Fire. 100,000 mourners took 6 hours to pass the 300,000 ...

The Triangle fire and the Upper Big Branch explosion a century later make clear to me that workers want and need that voice — about wages and benefits, yes, but about more, too.

On March 25, 1911, 146 workers perished when a fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. For 90 years, it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. Bettmann/CORBIS On March 25 ...

David Von Drehle was interviewed about his book, [Triangle: The Fire That Changed America], published by Atlantic Monthly Press. He described the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911 in New York's ...

A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killed 146 people on this day in history, March 25, 1911 — leading to a host of worker safety reforms.

Amid commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire on March 25, descendants of the 146 victims and of those who survived the inferno are remembering tales of family ...