March 25 will mark the 108th anniversary of one of the great tragedies in United States worker’s history: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, in which employers’ greed and callous disregard for their workers’ safety caused the death of 146 people.
These workers were mostly young women—Jewish and Italian immigrants—forced by circumstance to work in a sweatshop where their lives were valued less than the shirtwaists they produced.
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