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 ...

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 their factory just off ...

On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in Manhattan killed 146 workers, most of them young women, and to mark the tragedy’s centenary come two documentaries on the subject.

The 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, and galvanized the U.S. labor movement.