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PBS Triangle Fire video.pbs/video/1817898383

PBS Triangle Fire http://video.pbs.org/video/1817898383. What are some of the factors that led to the Triangle Fire? What are the factors that led to reform?. The Triangle Fire. Garment industry/consumer culture 1909: International Ladies Garment Union (ILGWU) strike in NYC 20,000

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  1. PBS Triangle Firehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1817898383 • What are some of the factors that led to the Triangle Fire? • What are the factors that led to reform?

  2. The Triangle Fire • Garment industry/consumer culture • 1909: International Ladies Garment Union (ILGWU) strike in NYC • 20,000 • Lasted 14 weeks • 20% of work force • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory • Protest dangerous and demeaning conditions • Picketers arrested • Women organize • Female dominated industries

  3. March 25, 1911 • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Asch Building, Greenwich Village (now science building for NYU) • 146 women died. Oldest: 48. youngest: 11 • Deadliest industrial fire in U.S history

  4. 500 women worked on 8, 9, 10 floors • Cost of needles, electricity and thread deducted from pay • Economic competition and workers’ wages • Lint and combustible cloth ignite • Owners Max Blanck and Isaac Harris immigrants who “made it”

  5. Safety precautions: buckets of water, rusted fire escape • 250 workers on 9th floor not warned • Most 8th floor workers escaped via stairs • Doors locked to stairwells • Crowded elevators • Firemen with nets arrive • Ladders reach only to 6th floor • Jumping out of windows

  6. Reform • Better building access • Fireproofing • Alarm systems • Eating and toilet facilities • Limits on work hours • 1916: Adamson Act—federal law mandated 8-hr work day for interstate RR workers

  7. May 10, 1993 Bangkok, Thailand • Kadar Industrial toy factory (with 3,000 workers) ignites • JC Penny, Fisher Price, Hasbro, Toys R Us • Fire kills188 workers • 469 severely injured • Bodies incinerated in intense flames • Most of the dead young women (as young as 13) • Managers locked exit doors

  8. Shenzhen, China 11 suicides Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly undercover report employee who lost a next-generation iPhone prototype committed suicide Apple iphone factoryMay 2010

  9. Savar, BangladeshApril 28, 20131100 people killed

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