description: A New York Times Bestseller On March 25, 1911, at quitting time, a fire broke out in the Triangle shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes the building's upper three stories were consumed. Firemen's ladders weren't tall enough to rescue those trapped inside. In the worst workplace disaster in the city's history, 146 died - 123 of them women. This harrowing yet compulsively readable chronicle of that tragedy is also a vibrant portrait of an entire age.
language: English
title: Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
titlecomplete: Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
genres: Historical, American, Politics, Labor, Nonfiction, American History, New York, 20th Century, History, True Crime
ratings_count: 7073
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: New York City Book Award
category: Book of the Year
publisher: Thorndike Press