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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: 7 Books To Remember The 100th Anniversary

First Posted: 03/25/11 10:29 AM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 07:40 PM ET

One hundred years ago today, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire killed 175 people who were either trapped or leapt to their death to escape the flames. The fire started at the end of the work day and as mostly immigrant garment workers tried to escape, their way was blocked by a locked door. It took only 18 minutes to get the fire under control but it was too late. The 1911 fire became the touchstone for organized labor. Pictures of the aftermath are here, books on the tragedy are below.

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One hundred years ago today, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire killed 175 people who were either trapped or leapt to their death to escape the flames. The fire started at the end of the work day and as mos...
One hundred years ago today, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire killed 175 people who were either trapped or leapt to their death to escape the flames. The fire started at the end of the work day and as mos...
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We are still saddened today at the senseless loss of life in the Triangle fire. We are still galvanized by the call for workers' rights in its aftermath. But I'm also struck by those who refuse to learn the lessons this tragedy can teach us.

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Amber Troska
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02:54 PM on 04/01/2011
The band Rasputina wrote a rather haunting song about the incident as well.
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04:58 PM on 03/30/2011
Fragments from the Fire by Chris Llewellyn is a wonderful book of poetry about the Triangle Shirtwaist Company's tragedy. Haunting and beautifully written.
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pipenozzle
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01:55 PM on 03/30/2011
For the Triangle fire from the FDNY point of view, go to pipenozzle.com. FDNY firefighters worked 151 hours a week at the time of the Triangle fire. They organized in 1917.
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Galia Hannah
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01:06 PM on 03/26/2011
There is also the 1st anthology of poetry about Triangle "Walking Through a River of Fire: 100 Years of Triangle Fire Poetry" edited by Julia Stein which has everything from Morris Rosenfeld's 1911 poem written days after the fire to poems written in 2010.
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Cidne Wallace
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09:16 PM on 03/25/2011
Powerful PBS doc on the fire. Sad to see what those workers had to go through a year before the fire.. http://video.pbs.org/video/1817898383/ or look up Triangle Fire on PBS video.
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10:51 AM on 03/26/2011
thanks for the link
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CessnaDriverI72
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02:54 PM on 03/25/2011
The owners of the Triangle company set up elsewhere. Inspectors found that they blocked the exit doors there, too.
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gilbskg
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12:45 PM on 03/25/2011
HBO just this week aired a documentary on the Triangle Fire. I plan to use it in my classroom. I used to do a mock-trial activity that always outraged my students when I, as the presiding judge, overruled their inevitable guilty verdict.
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NAzizK
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10:51 AM on 03/25/2011
Democracy Now had a great story today about the anniversary of this event. What was interesting about it was the event's links to modern-day labor struggles around the world, including the US recently in Wisconsin. Here's a link to the show:

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/25/labor_rights_legacy_of_the_triangle
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