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The fiend fire could not be stopped. The doors that would free the six-hundred workers were locked shut, imprisoning the young girls in a man-made flaming hell. The manager attempted to use the fire hose to extinguish it, but the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. Running from the incinerator, many stuffed themselves into the two freight elevators, operated by Gaspar Mortillaro and Joseph Zito who both returned to the inferno over and over, saving a hundred and fifty people. Still, many could not fit on the elevator, and thus, they tried to slide down the cable or jump down the shaft, meeting their deaths. Ergo, the elevators stopped functioning quickly, weighed down by dozens of bodies and unable to rise. Those who managed to get…

children work long hours in factories for nothing being taught to the children and small pay. After the long 15 hour workdays, some workers will have to bring some of their own work from the factory…

demands of the workers. The act was enacted to respond to the economic fears, particularly in the West Coast, where the Native American was raising issues of declining wages and unemployment due to the Chinese immigrants. According to the source, “For the first time, Federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities” (Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), (n.d.) Retrieved September 26, 2016). The Chinese immigrants in America…

mainly happened because of the poor working conditions for example there was no exit signs and the fire escape was very narrow so it would have taking all the worker a very long time to get down The book Triangle The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle talks about a shirtwaist factory fire that happened in 1911 in New York. Several workers died during the fire, most of the people were Jewish immigrants and…

also why the hallway to one of the stairways were so tight fitting, so guards could check bags so nothing was stolen. The company knew very little about fire safety. The blocking of the doorways was a dangerous concern. In one doorway there was boxes blocking the exit, in another there was barrel of oil. The ninth floor was set up for disaster. Because the company was all about sewing their shirtwaists, the ninth floor was filled with sewing machines. For a sewing machine to run smoothly you…

2012 a fire stormed the factory of Tazreen Fashions in Dhaka, Bangladesh where more than 100 workers perished (Bajaj, 2012). The blaze initiated on Saturday at 7 pm and took all night for firefighters to extinguish. A large majority of the plants manufacturing was made for Wal-Mart, as well as other American and European brands. Due to the notably poor fire safety precautions and the fact that the plants managers blocked off some of the stair cases preventing anyone to leave, as a result people…

What laws were made? Did anything happen to the owner? The Triangle Factory fire was a devastating situation: 145 people out of 500 died. It was a hard situation for many parents. Many parents also wanted a revenge on the owners. As I read some articles and stories about this fire to know what would happen to the owner. So I did a little research and this is what I found out! The owner's names are Max Harris and Isaac Blank. They went to court because many believe they arranged the fire to…

“Flesh and Blood so Cheap,” by Albert Marrin, is a story showcasing a truly devastating story of how the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory went ablaze on March 25, 1911. The fire was thought to be started by a hot ash or a live cigarette that was flicked into a scrap bin. But we will never know what truly started the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. As the story progresses it discusses why the health and safety of workers must be overseen by the local government. The health and safety of workers at the…

Just four months previously, a fire in a Newark factory claimed 25 lives, many of which were caused by workers jumping to their deaths to escape the flames. In fact, fires were extremely common in large factories, and a fire could even be a good business move for a factory owner, if there was extra stock and insurance money to be collected. The Asch building itself had had four small fires leading up to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. However, fire safety was definitely not a priority in the eyes…

I wouldn’t consider myself to be as radical in thought as she was considered at that time, but if I lived in her time, I may very well have been as well. I can identify with her in that if I were a woman, I would want to have the same opportunities and equal pay as men. That’s still something that our society is struggling with today, and we’ve made significant progress since Clara’s time, but we still have work to do as well. I think her advocacy for unions as the best way to address problems…