14 Factors That Contributed to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (ranker.com)
+Blessed Memory to all of the (mostly immigrant) women who died 111 years ago today, in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory blaze. Locked exits forced these women to leap from the burning building to their deaths on the street below. The site is now owned by NYU, near Washington Square Park, and there's a plaque. Garment workers unionized because of this horrifying situation, and poor working conditions in factories began to be written about & exposed by journalists. We've come a long way, but the bosses still hold workers under (psychological) lock & key….