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Nonfiction: A Web Search about The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Background: If you do not understand what the Industrial Revolution was, follow this link.
Why is this important?
You've seen
In his book, Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and It's Legacy, Albert Marrin points out that "Dubbed the 'Triangle Fire,' for ninety years it held the record as New York's deadliest workplace fire. Only the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center took more lives." [Highlighting was added for this lesson.]
Read the introduction on this webpage:
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/story/introduction.html
Why does this introduction say that the triangle fire is significant?
Sweat shops today: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/story/sweatshopsStrikes.html, paragraph 3
Table --
Working conditions now -- generally
5 day work week
8 hour work day or 40 your work week
vacations
safety OSHA?
workman's compensation
living wage for many
Working conditions then --- generally
Who were the workers? http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/story/fire.html
paragraph 3.
sweated factories scroll through the slide # 24 http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/photosIllustrations/slideshow.html?image_id=815&sec_id=8#screen
read the caption
about the building http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/supplemental/timeline.html?e=asch_building
triangle fire
problems for the fire fighters: slide #6
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/photosIllustrations/slideshow.html?image_id=898&sec_id=3#screen
read the caption to find at least two problems -- why the firefighters weren't able to do much about the fire
Did they have sprinkler systems?
How long did it take to put out the fire? slide #5
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/photosIllustrations/slideshow.html?image_id=898&sec_id=3#screen
What were some problems with the fire escapes? slide #8
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/photosIllustrations/slideshow.html?image_id=898&sec_id=3#screen
Why hard to escape the room on the 9th floor? slide 18
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/photosIllustrations/slideshow.html?image_id=898&sec_id=3#screen
timeline
With the cloakmakers' strike of 1910, a historic agreement was reached, that established a grievance system in the garment industry
What did the owners Blanck and Harris claim about the building? With the cloakmakers' strike of 1910, a historic agreement was reached, that established a grievance system in the garment industry
What were the owners Blanck and Harris charged with?
How did the jury decide the case?
Why was only one way out left for the workers? You can answer this if you findt happened when they left work each day?
As the result of civil suits, what did the owners end up paying for each life lost in the Triangle Fire?
After the fire, when they moved their business to a new location, how safe was it for the workers?
Victims' List
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/victimsWitnesses/victimsList.html
Youngest click on her name to find out where she was born.
Select any three other victims
name where born how long did she or he live in the u.S.
How many men? 15 ? 16
last victims identified: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/victimsWitnesses/unidentifiedVictims.html
What am I supposed to do?
1911 -- What did this time period look like?
links to photos
What terms do I need to know?
glossary
acquitted
agrarian
civil suits
exploitation
Industrial Revolution: the changeover from the artisan's hand labor to machinery powered by steam or electricity p. 28 in Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and It's Legacy by Albert Marrin
History.Com
text http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution
video http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/videos#the-industrial-revolition
http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/videos#the-industrial-revolition
2:33 minutes
immigrants:
Industrialism:
According to Dr. Brian Q. Cannon, a history professor from BYU
industrial system vs. pre-industrial
autonomous craft workers
determined their own time, output, etc.
had to negotiate with shop owner but largely autonomous
inhumane:
labor movement:
living wage
inhumane:
labor movement:
living wage
rural - urban:
capitalist class: those with lots of money
monotonous: the same thing over and over again
capitalist class: those with lots of money
monotonous: the same thing over and over again
Shirtwaist
strike:
sweated factory
Labor
Management
