Foreword
Preface
List of Illustrations
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION: THE FIRE THAT CHANGED AMERICA
Fashioning a New Industry: "The Shirtwaist Kings" and the Factory System
Working "Girls" in the Garment Industry
Triangle and the "Uprising of Twenty Thousand"
"Fire!": The Triangle Tragedy
"The Day it Rained Children": Grief, Outrage, and Reform
The Trial: 146 Dead but "Nobody Guilty"
Epilogue: The "Fire that Lit the Nation"
PART TWO
THE DOCUMENTS
The Triangle Waist Company in the Asch Building 1. Arthur E. McFarlane,
Fire and the Skyscraper: The Problem of Protecting Workers in New York’s Tower Factories, September 1911
2. Regularity of Employment in the Women’s Ready-to-Wear Garment Industries, October 1915
3. Pearl Goodman and Elsa Ueland,
The Shirtwaist Trade, December 1910
The Sewing Girls at Work and Play 4. Rose Cohen,
Out of the Shadow 5. Sadie Frowne,
The Story of a Sweatshop Girl, September 1902
6. Clara Lemlich,
Life in the Shop The "Great Uprising" – The Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910 7. The New York Times,
Arrest Strikers for Being Assaulted, November 1909
8. The Survey,
Strike of the Lady Shirtwaist Makers, November
1909 9. Constance D. Leupp,
The Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike, December
1909 10. The New York Times, Girl Strikers Tell the Rich their Woes, December 1909
11. Allan L. Benson, Women in a Labor War: How the Working girls of New York East Side Have Learned to Use Men’s Weapons in a Struggle for Better Conditions, April 1910
12. The New York Times,
Church to the Aid of Girl Strikers, December 1909
13. The New York Times,
Mrs. Belmont on Girl’s Bond, December 1909
14. The New York Times,
Pickets from Prison are Guests of Honor, December 1909
15. Mary Brown Sumner,
The Spirit of the Strikers, January 1910
16. William Mailly,
The Working Girls’ Strike, December 1909
17. The Uprising of the Twenty Thousands (Dedicated to the Waistmakers of 1909), 1910
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - March 25, 1911 18. The New York World,
The Triangle Fire, March 1911
19. Chicago Daily Tribune,
New York Fire Kills 148, March 1911
20. The New York Times,
Partners’ Account of the Disaster, March 1911
21. Rosey Safran, The Washington Place Fire, April 1911
Grief and Outrage 22. The New York Times,
Sad All-Day March to Morgue Gates, March 1911
23. The New York Times,
Doors Were Locked Say Rescued Girls, March 1911
24. The New York Times,
Faint in a Frenzy over Tales of Fire, March 1911
25. The New York Times,
Mass Meeting Calls for New Fire Laws, April 1911
26. The New York Times,
120,000 Pay Tribute to the Fire Victims, April 1911
27. Martha Bensley Bruere,
The Triangle Fire Investigations and Reform 28. Report of the Red Cross, Emergency Relief after the Washington Place Fire: New York, March 25, 1911, 1912
29. Elizabeth Dutcher,
Budgets of the Triangle Fire Victims, September 1912
30. The New York Times,
Many Now Tell of Fire Traps, March 1911
31. State of New York,
Preliminary Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1912, Volume III, 1912
32. Alfred A. Smith,
Up to Now: An Autobiography, 1929
The Trial of the Triangle Owners 33. The Outlook,
Indictments in the Asch Fire Case, April 1911
34. The New York Times, Enraged Women Mob Triangle Waist Men, 1937
35. Chicago Daily Tribune,
What the Grave Covers, September 1913
36. The New York Times, Settle Triangle Fire Suits, March 1914
Appendixes
A Chronology of Key Events in the History of the Triangle Fire (1901-2001)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Relevant Websites
Index