The Triangle Fire: a brief history with documents

Foreword

Preface

Part 1. Introduction: The fire that changed America.

The garment industry and its workers ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand" ; The Triangle tragedy : grief and outrage ; "The fire that lit the nation" : investigations and reform

Part 2. The documents. 1. The garment industry and its workers. Fire and the skyscraper : the problem of protecting workers in New York's tower factories / Arthur E. McFarlane (September 1911) ; The shirtwaist trade / Pearl Goodman and Elsa Ueland (December 1910) ; Out of the shadow / Rose Cohen (1918) ; The story of a sweatshop girl / Sadie Frowne (September 25, 1902) ; Life in the shop / Clara Lemlich (November 26, 1909) ; 2. Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand". Arrest strikers for being assaulted / (New York Times) (November 5, 1909) ; Women in a labor war : how the working girls of New York East Side have learned to use men's weapons in a struggle for better conditions / Allan L. Benson (April 1910) ; Church to the aid of girl strikers (The New York Times) (December 20, 1909) ; The working girls' strike / William Mailly (December 23, 1909) ; The uprising of the twenty thousands (dedicated to the waistmakers of 1909) (1910). ; 3. The Triangle tragedy, grief and outrage. The Triangle Fire (New York World) (March 27, 1911) ; Thrilling incidents in Gotham holocaust that wiped out one hundred and fifty lives (Chicago Sunday Tribune) (March 28, 1911) ; Partners' account of the disaster (New York Times) (March 26, 1911) ; The Washington Place Fire / Rosey Safran (April 20, 1911) ; 120,000 pay tribute to the fire victims (New York Times) (April 6, 1911) ; Emergency relief after the Washington Place Fire, New York, March 25, 1911 : report of the Red Cross Emergency Relief Committee of the Charity Organization of the Society of the City of New York (1912) ; Budgets of the Triangle Fire victims / Elizabeth Dutcher (September 1912) ; All for one / Rose Schneiderman (1967) ; The Triangle fire / Martha Bensley Bruere (May 1911). ; 4. "The fire that lit the nation" : investigations and reform. Indictments in the Asch Fire case (The Outlook) (April 22, 1911) ; 147 dead, nobody guilty (Literary Digest) (January 6, 1912) ; What the grave covers (Chicago Daily Tribune) (September 30, 1913) ; Preliminary report of the Factory Investigating Commission / State of New York (1912) ; Up to now : an autobiography / Alfred E. Smith (1929) ; The Roosevelt I knew / Frances Perkins (1946).

Appendixes: A chronology of the Triangle Fire (1900-2001) ; Questions for consideration ; Selected bibliography.