On a beautiful spring day, March 25, 1911, workers were preparing
to leave the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich
Village when a fire started. Within minutes it consumed the
building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene
were unable to rescue those trapped inside. The final toll was
146-123 of them women. It was the worst disaster in New York City
history until September 11, 2001. Harrowing yet compulsively
readable, Triangle is both a chronicle of the fire and a vibrant
portrait of an entire age. Waves of Jewish and Italian immigrants
inundated New York in the early years of the century, filling its
slums and supplying its garment factories with cheap, mostly female
labor. Protesting their Dickensian work conditions, forty thousand
women bravely participated in a massive shirtwaist workers' strike
that brought together an unlikely coalition of socialists,
socialites, and suffragettes. Von Drehle orchestrates these events
into a drama rich in suspense and filled with memorable characters.
Most powerfully, he puts a human face on the men and women who
died, and shows how the fire dramatically transformed politics and
gave rise to urban liberalism.
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