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 ...

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 ...

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.

On Wednesday, a new memorial to the 146 victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire will be dedicated in Greenwich Village at the site of the tragedy, a landmarked 10-story neo ...

In 1911, 146 people, mostly women and girls, died in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City after locked doors and a collapsed fire escape prevented them from fleeing their ...