This week marks 104 years since the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, a tragedy
that changed our country forever. On that horrible day, dangerous
workplace conditions started a fire at a garment factory in Manhattan's
Greenwich Village. Within 20 minutes, 146 people were dead -almost all
of them young immigrant women. America reacted with outrage. The
backlash to this incident became a turning point in the history of the
US and global labor movements. In the ensuing decades, key labor and
workplace safety laws that we now think of as obvious were first put
into place. The American people resolved that those young women did not
die in vain.
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