In 1911, demonstrators protested following the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. RBM Vintage Images / Alamy Stock Photo Editor's Note, December 21, 2018: After receiving much ...

When the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire broke out on March 25, 1911, the Forward was on the scene. For days it dominated the news — 146 workers, mostly Jewish and Italian immigrant women perished in ...

From 1900 to 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory stood on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Manhattan. Inside, young women, mostly Jewish and Italian immigrants, worked as ...

A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killed 146 people on this day in history, March 25, 1911 — and ushered in a host of new workplace safety reforms. The fire broke out on the ...

On the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street, in New York City’s Greenwich Village, is a bronze plaque affixed to the Neo-Renaissance façade of the Brown Building—now part of New York ...

She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life to worker safety. By Douglas Martin To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of ...

When Starbucks barista Megan DiMotta started organizing a union at her store, she had plenty of present-day grievances to discuss, such as inadequate wages and unsafe working conditions during the ...