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-- Tragedy that forever changed labor and industry.c2011., Distributed by PBS Distribution Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the gruesome culmination of years of unrest in America's most profitable manufacturing industry. Two years earlier, led by a spontaneous walkout in the same factory, twenty thousand garment workers, in the largest women's strike in American history, took to the streets of New York to protest working conditions. They gained the support of both progressives and leading women in New York's society.
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c2011., Juvenile, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 331.892 EDG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Civil rights struggles around the worldSummary Note: Chronicles the events surrounding the 1909 International Ladies Garment Workers Union strike, in which twenty thousand workers from five hundred shirtwaist factories went on strike to demand better hours, higher wages, and safer working conditions.
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c2011., Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 331.892 EDG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Civil rights struggles around the worldSummary Note: Chronicles the events surrounding the 1909 International Ladies Garment Workers Union strike, in which twenty thousand workers from five hundred shirtwaist factories went on strike to demand better hours, higher wages, and safer working conditions.