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Once a sweatshop, now a lab for life: Studying inside the Triangle Shirtwaist site

Inside a building in Greenwich Village, NYU Ph.D. and postdoctoral students follow a familiar routine. They take the elevator to a laboratory on the top floor, where they sit for hours perched over ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

On March 25, 1911, 146 workers perished when a fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. For 90 years, it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. Bettmann/CORBIS On March 25, ...
The Forward

We’re forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, March 25, 1911, they could not know that their lives would soon be extinguished ...