Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
- ISBN-10
- 080214151X
- ISBN-13
- 9780802141514
- Series
- Triangle
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 340
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Author
- David Von Drehle
Description
Describes the 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, and its implications for twentieth-century politics and labor relations.
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