Episode 21: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire killed 146 workers in 1911 and became a turning point in labor history. CC and Kitty cover the factory conditions, the Uprising of the 20,000, Clara Lemlich, the locked-exit legacy, the trial, and the workplace safety reforms that followed. Subscribe for weekly disaster investigations from Wreckage & Ruins. SOURCES: https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/shirtwaist/ https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-mass-manufactured-clothing/ https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-events/triangle-shirtwaist-fire https://www.history.com/articles/triangle-shirtwaist-fire https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/shirtwaist-kings/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography-clara-lemlich/ https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/uprising-of-20000-1909#:~:text=Throughout%20the%20uprising%2C%20arrests%20and,named%20%E2%80%9Cindustrial%20feminism%E2%80%9D ). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/triangle/#transcript https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/slides/182.html#screen https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/publications/occasion/fire-stories/raining-blood-and-money-remembering-triangle-shirtwaist https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/victimsWitnesses/unidentifiedVictims.html#:~:text=Michael%20Hirsch%20is%20an%20independent%20researcher%20who,Age%2022%2C%20lived%20at%2018%20Cornelia%20Street https://www.famous-trials.com/trianglefire/964-home https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/legacy/legislativeReform.html#:~:text=During%20its%20second%20year%20of,code%20after%20the%20Triangle%20Fire . https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/mono-regsafepart07#:~:text=The%20main%20purpose%20of%20the,had%20stressed%20the%20health%20problem . https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tammany-Hall Triangle: Remembering the Fire on HBO