Triangle
Subtitle: the fire that changed America
By: David Von Drehle.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911.; Fires -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.; Clothing factories -- New York (State) -- New York -- Safety measures -- History -- 20th century.; Labor laws and legislation -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Describes the 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, and the implications of the catastrophe for twentieth-century politics and labor relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-325) and index.