![]() ![]() Murphy, as well as the many workers who lost their lives in the fire, Triangle presents a dramatic account of early 20th century New York and the events that gave rise to urban liberalism. Morgan’s blue-blooded activist daughter Anne, and political king maker Charles F. With a memorable cast of characters, including J.P. And it shows how a public outcry over the fire led to an unprecedented alliance between labor reformers and Tammany Hall politicians. It portrays the Dickensian work conditions that led to a massive waist-worker’s strike in which an unlikely coalition of socialists, socialites, and suffragettes took on bosses, police, and magistrates. ![]() ![]() It follows the waves of Jewish and Italian immigration that supplied New York City’s garment factories with cheap, mostly female labor. Triangle is both a harrowing chronicle of the Triangle shirtwaist fire and a vibrant portrait of an era. People on the street watched in horror as desperate workers jumped to their deaths. Firemen were powerless to rescue those trapped inside: their ladders simply weren’t tall enough. Within minutes it consumed the building’s upper three stories. As the workday was about to end, a fire broke out in the Triangle shirtwaist factory of Greenwich Village. This “outstanding history” of the 1911 disaster that changed the course of 20th-century politics and labor relations “is social history at its best” (Kevin Baker, The New York Times Book Review). ![]()
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