Sewing machines, drive shafts, and other wreckage of the Triangle factory fire are piled in the center of the blaze-scoured room. This is a reproduction on an image from 1911 for the ILGWU's 50th ...

The factory was overcrowded and its exits locked ... who two years before the fire had helped inspire what then was the largest strike by female workers in the United States.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was long the focus of the struggle for labour rights and safety. Conditions sparked an eleven-week general strike in the New York garment industry in 1909 called the ...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial was organized by the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition ... At a historic meeting at Cooper Union, thousands of garment workers from all over the city ...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located in the top floors of the Asch building in Greenwich Village, was one of many shirtwaist factories operating in Manhattan at the time. This boom in industry ...

As their status grew as shirtwaist makers ... for workers to build solidarity and sisterhood, and Triangle Factory workers went on strike in November 1909. As former garment workers themselves ...

The fire spread quickly. On that Saturday in March of 1911, black smoke billowed out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory near Washington Square Park in New York City. The panicked workers inside ...

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