On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village. The final toll was 146 people, at the time the worst disaster in New York City history. The fire ultimately was a watershed event in the labor movement. The author gives the story an immediacy that makes it harrowing, yet compulsively readable.
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