Topic: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Workers and organizers are pushing for what would be one of the biggest victories for labor in the United States over the past few decades if successful in the first Amazon wharehouse union election in Bessemer, Alabama, where worker's ballots must reach the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board by March 29 to be counted. | Demonstrators mourn for the deaths of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York, New York, 1911. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Bob Hennelly