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The article, "Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire", is about the fire that happened in the early 1900s in New York. It starts off by talking about the working conditions and how the factory would employ immigrant women. Nearly all of the factory workers were girls that did not know English and were forced to work 12 hours a day, every day. The day that the fire started only one of the four elevators was working, and they were only able to make four trips to get people out before the elevator broke down. There were only two other exits and one of them was locked. Many of the girls died that day trying to escape. Some jumped into the elevator shaft, others died when they tried to escape down the stairs and the door was locked, and others jumped out windows only to die after they fell. Those on the upper floors, including the bosses, were able to escape to the roof and make it to another building. In the end, 146 people died from the fire.

While everything about the fire was a tragedy, there were some important changes that came from it. The workers united and laws were passed to make sure this kind of tragedy never happened again.

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The article, "Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire", states that "Those workers who were on floors above the fire, including the owners, escaped to the roof and then to adjoining buildings." (History.com). This is also what happens in "Uprising". The book states that about 30 to 40 people from the higher floors made it to the roof, including the owner, Mr. Blanck. Once they were up there they climbed up the building and onto the roof of the building next door. This is one example of how history unfolded accurately in the book.

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Table of Contents

1. Working Conditions in The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

2. What Started The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?

3. Importance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 146 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable-most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers.

Working Conditions in The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

The Triangle factory, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, was located in the top three floors of the Asch Building, on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, in Manhattan. It was a true sweatshop, employing young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at lines of sewing machines. Nearly all the workers were teenaged girls who did not speak English and worked 12 hours a day, every day. In 1911, there were four elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and the workers had to file down a long, narrow corridor in order to reach it. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent stealing and the other only opened inward. The fire escape was so narrow that it would have taken hours for all the workers to use it, even in the best of circumstances.

Did you know? Exactly 79 years to the day after the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, another tragic fire occurred in New York City. The blaze, at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx, killed 87 people, the most deadly fire in the city since 1911.

The danger of fire in factories like the Triangle Shirtwaist was well-known, but high levels of corruption in both the garment industry and city government generally ensured that no useful precautions were taken to prevent fires. Blanck and Harris already had a suspicious history of factory fires. The Triangle factory was twice scorched in 1902, while their Diamond Waist Company factory burned twice, in 1907 and in 1910. It seems that Blanck and Harris deliberately torched their workplaces before business hours in order to collect on the large fire-insurance policies they purchased, a not uncommon practice in the early 20th century. While this was not the cause of the 1911 fire, it contributed to the tragedy, as Blanck and Harris refused to install sprinkler systems and take other safety measures in case they needed to burn down their shops again.

Added to this delinquency were Blanck and Harris' notorious anti-worker policies. Their employees were paid a mere $15 a week, despite working 12 hours a day, every day. When the International Ladies Garment Workers Union led a strike in 1909 demanding higher pay and shorter and more predictable hours, Blanck and Harris' company was one of the few manufacturers who resisted, hiring police as thugs to imprison the striking women, and paying off politicians to look the other way.

What Started The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?

On March 25, a Saturday afternoon, there were 600 workers at the factory when a fire began in a rag bin. The manager attempted to use the fire hose to extinguish it, but was unsuccessful, as the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. As the fire grew, panic ensued. The young workers tried to exit the building by the elevator but it could hold only 12 people and the operator was able to make just four trips back and forth before it broke down amid the heat and flames. In a desperate attempt to escape the fire, the girls left behind waiting for the elevator plunged down the shaft to their deaths. The girls who fled via the stairwells also met awful demises-when they found a locked door at the bottom of the stairs, many were burned alive.

Those workers who were on floors above the fire, including the owners, escaped to the roof and then to adjoining buildings. As firefighters arrived, they witnessed a horrible scene. The girls who did not make it to the stairwells or the elevator were trapped by the fire inside the factory and began to jump from the windows to escape it. The bodies of the jumpers fell on the fire hoses, making it difficult to begin fighting the fire. Also, the firefighters ladders reached only seven floors high and the fire was on the eighth floor. In one case, a life net was unfurled to catch jumpers, but three girls jumped at the same time, ripping the net. The nets turned out to be mostly ineffectual.

Within 18 minutes, it was all over. Forty-nine workers had burned to death or been suffocated by smoke, 36 were dead in the elevator shaft and 58 died from jumping to the sidewalks. With two more dying later from their injuries, a total of 146 people were killed by the fire.

Importance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

The fire helped unite organized labor and reform-minded politicians like progressive New York Governor Alfred E. Smith and Senator Robert F. Wagner, one of the legislative architects of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agenda. Frances Perkins, who served on a committee that helped to set up the Factory Investigating Commission in New York in the wake of the fire, would later become Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor. The workers union set up a march on April 5 on New York's Fifth Avenue to protest the conditions that had led to the fire. It was attended by 80,000 people.

Despite a good deal of evidence that the owners and management had been horribly negligent in the fire, a grand jury failed to indict them on manslaughter charges. To settle lawsuits against them, they eventually paid $75 in compensation to each victim's family-a fraction of the $400 per death that they were paid by their insurer.

Still, the massacre for which they were responsible did finally compel the city to enact reform. In addition to the Sullivan-Hoey Fire Prevention Law passed that October, the New York Democratic set took up the cause of the worker and became known as a reform party. Both were crucial in preventing similar disasters in the future.

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On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 146 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable.

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There are many similarities and differences between these two historical fiction books. They're different because in the book "Uprising" the relationship that happens here is when Bella moves to New York to provide money for her family back home in Italy. The relationship in Escape From East Berlin is the relationship between Marta, Johann, and Stefan, when Stefan passed it really affected her.

They're alike because in "Uprising" Bella learns that her family died and she was grieving and her friends who were there to comfort her. Similarly, in "Escape From East Berlin" Marta's friend passed Stefan and this really affected her and her friend and family comforted her.

In conclusion, both of these stories have their differences and similarities in the relationships of the characters.

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The book "Uprising" by Margaret Peterson Haddix is about three girls Bella, Yetta, and Jane. Bella has just arrived from her small hometown in Italy and is trying to raise money for her family back home. Yetta is a girl who works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and goes on strikes for Shirtwaist workers and their rights. Jane is a rich girl who has been going to women's rights meetings.

In this book, relationships affect all of the main characters. One example of this is Bella's relationship with Yetta and Jane, and how when she learned that her family is dead Jane was there to offer sanctuary. After she leaves Jane's house, Yetta tells her she can live with her and her sister. This is shown when the author states, "'You can come live with Rahel and me,' Yetta said. 'Girls like us, we stick together'" (Haddix 165). This shows the relationship between Bella and Yetta and that she still has people who care about her even though her family is gone.

Another example of how relationships can affect people is the relationship between Yetta and her older sister, Rahel. Yetta loves her sister but their relationship got more challenging when Rahel gets married and goes to work for her husband. Then Yetta finds out that Rahel is going to have a baby, and is upset because of how tight they are with money. Even though they have their ups and downs, they still are family and care about each other.

The final example is Jane's relationship with her father and how she feels like she has no free will and runs away from home. This is shown after Jane leaves home and finds Bella and Yetta and states, "My father is an evil man, and I never knew it until your strike. It's all wrong -- everything I have was bought with blood -- I can't go back, I can't" (Haddix 206). After this, Yetta and Bella invite Jane to live with them and do what they can to comfort her. This shows just how good of friends Jane has and what they do for her even though they come from completely different backgrounds. Jane learns a lot about herself through all of this and becomes stronger and more independent. In conclusion, relationships affected all of the characters in many different ways throughout the book which caused the characters to grow and change.