The Resource Triangle : the fire that changed America, David Von Drehle
Triangle : the fire that changed America, David Von Drehle
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The item Triangle : the fire that changed America, David Von Drehle represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- "On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside: their ladders simply weren't tall enough. People on the street watched in horror as desperate workers jumped to their deaths. The final toll was 146 people - 123 of them women. It was the worst workplace disaster in New York City History." "This harrowing yet compulsively readable book is both a chronicle of the Triangle shirtwaist fire and a vibrant portrait of an entire age. It follows the waves of Jewish and Italian immigration that inundated New York in the early years of the century, filling its slums and supplying its garment factories with cheap, mostly female labor. It portrays the Dickensian work conditions that led to a massive waist-worker's strike in which an unlikely coalition of socialists, socialites, and suffragettes took on bosses, police, and magistrates. Von Drehle shows how popular revulsion at the Triangle catastrophe led to an unprecedented alliance between idealistic labor reformers and the supremely pragmatic politicians of the Tammany machine
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Grove Press edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Contents
-
- Reform
- Trial
- Prologue: Misery Lane
- Sprit of the age
- Triangle
- Uprising
- Golden land
- Inferno
- Three minutes
- Fallout
- Isbn
- 9780802141514
- Label
- Triangle : the fire that changed America
- Title
- Triangle
- Title remainder
- the fire that changed America
- Statement of responsibility
- David Von Drehle
- Subject
-
- Biography
- Clothing factories -- New York (State) | New York -- Safety measures | History -- 20th century
- Clothing factories -- Safety measures
- Fires
- Fires -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Labor laws and legislation
- Labor laws and legislation -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- 1898 - 1999
- New York (State) -- New York
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911)
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside: their ladders simply weren't tall enough. People on the street watched in horror as desperate workers jumped to their deaths. The final toll was 146 people - 123 of them women. It was the worst workplace disaster in New York City History." "This harrowing yet compulsively readable book is both a chronicle of the Triangle shirtwaist fire and a vibrant portrait of an entire age. It follows the waves of Jewish and Italian immigration that inundated New York in the early years of the century, filling its slums and supplying its garment factories with cheap, mostly female labor. It portrays the Dickensian work conditions that led to a massive waist-worker's strike in which an unlikely coalition of socialists, socialites, and suffragettes took on bosses, police, and magistrates. Von Drehle shows how popular revulsion at the Triangle catastrophe led to an unprecedented alliance between idealistic labor reformers and the supremely pragmatic politicians of the Tammany machine
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- NDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Von Drehle, David
- Dewey number
- 974.71041
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F128.5
- LC item number
- .V946 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Triangle Shirtwaist Company
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911)
- Fires
- Clothing factories
- Labor laws and legislation
- Clothing factories
- Fires
- Labor laws and legislation
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (State)
- Label
- Triangle : the fire that changed America, David Von Drehle
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Reform
- Trial
- Prologue: Misery Lane
- Sprit of the age
- Triangle
- Uprising
- Golden land
- Inferno
- Three minutes
- Fallout
- Control code
- 1078608
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First Grove Press edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802141514
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780802141514
- (OCoLC)56793520
- Label
- Triangle : the fire that changed America, David Von Drehle
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Reform
- Trial
- Prologue: Misery Lane
- Sprit of the age
- Triangle
- Uprising
- Golden land
- Inferno
- Three minutes
- Fallout
- Control code
- 1078608
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First Grove Press edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802141514
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780802141514
- (OCoLC)56793520
Subject
- Biography
- Clothing factories -- New York (State) | New York -- Safety measures | History -- 20th century
- Clothing factories -- Safety measures
- Fires
- Fires -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Labor laws and legislation
- Labor laws and legislation -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- 1898 - 1999
- New York (State) -- New York
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911)
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951
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