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The Triangle Fire Centennial Edition
Contributor(s): Stein, Leon (Author), Hirsch, Michael (Foreword by), Greider, William (Introduction by)

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 ISBN: 0801477077     ISBN-13: 9780801477072
Publisher: ILR Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa)
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief
Dewey: 974.710
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.58" W x 8.51" L (0.75 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
Features: Index, Table of Contents
 
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March 25, 2011, marks the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers lost their lives. A work of history relevant for all those who continue the fight for workers' rights and safety, this edition of Leon Stein's classic account of the fire features a substantial new foreword by the labor journalist Michael Hirsch, as well as a new appendix listing all of the victims' names, for the first time, along with addresses at the time of their death and locations of their final resting places.

Contributor Bio(s): Stein, Leon: - The late Leon Stein was the editor of Justice, the official publication of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union. He was also the author of Out of the Sweatshop: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy.Greider, William: - William Greider, national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine, is author of One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. He also edited The Real World of Employee Ownership, from Cornell.
 
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