There was an abundance of workers, and the items they were producing were being found in homes across the country. Industry was making a lot of money, but due to the number of able workers, these same companies believed that they did not need to treat them well. The workers were putting in ten to twelve hours a day, five and a half, or six days a week (p. 9). The working conditions
Despite the death and destruction it caused, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire ultimately benefited America by opening the eyes of mistreated factory workers and inspiring them to fight for better working conditions. Though it was unbeknownst at the time, the fire would inspire mistreated workers to rise out of the ashes and work tirelessly not for a factory, but for their own wellbeing. The history, the fire, and the trial that are all connected to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company are the events that led to the exploration for better working conditions. While we may not wish to remember all of the suffering the conflagration caused, we see its imprint it left on society whenever we see someone at work. This just imprint is one of safety.
On March 25, 1911, a fire started at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory that claimed the lives of one hundred and forty-six workers. As a result of the fire, trials and debates occurred that contended the factory owners right to control their business against their duty to implement safe working conditions for their employees. Despite the trial resulting in no charges for the business owners the triangle fire is responsible for stricter safety codes and brought attention on the labor movement. In order to fully understand the changes that resulted because of the shirtwaist fire, you must first know what life was life prior to the fire.
Workers rights were very minimal and their was uproar among the workers. Many lower class impoverished workers forced to terrible conditions and
Frances Perkins, a survivor from the Shirtwaist Factory Fire quotes “Moved by this sense of stricken guilt, we banded ourselves together to find a way by law to prevent this kind of disaster.” Frances Perkins became secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and this quote said by Perkins “something must be done. We’ve got to turn this into some kind of victory, some kind of constructive action,” helped new workplace safety standards into law in the state of New York. The benefits that I would like the audience to see is how workplace safety is important by learning about the history of regulation, OSHA, and workers compensation.
Almost in all fields of work in San Joaquin County, workers are unable to stand and shield their rights as workers. Moreover, this means that most rights of the people faces violations in such a way that no one gets permission to complain over a given issue. In this essence, if the trend continuous the level of work will finally experience shake-ups that may result to low production. In connection to this, (Brewer 23) recommends that, workers need to unite and come up with a union that will help their views to have a recognition. Besides, workers also do not assess good health services that makes them be vulnerable to diseases associated with different climatic
The factory offered high pay, but desired hard work in a poor conditioned area. This left many factory girls very sick, and almost causing them to die. Many girls started to protest, forming the petition.
Florence Kelley was an activist who fought against child labor in the late 1800'-early 1900's. She fought very hard for child labor and for better working conditions for our women. On the day of July 22, 1905 Kelley gave her speech regarding her reasoning of why child labor should end. To get a better understanding of her speech Florence Kelley implies pathos, ethos, and logos,which will catch the audience attention. The author reflects the sense of ethos playing the role of Florence Kelley.
One of the most infamous blemishes on the Nation Guard’s reputation is The Kent State Incident. The Kent State incident on May 4, 1970, had the entire nation in an uproar after the shooting and killing of four students, two of which were bystanders, and another nine students wounded by the National Guardsmen. “Seconds later, four students lay dead, with nine others wounded. Two of the dead had been demonstrators 250 feet away from the guardsmen. The other two were bystanders, almost 400 feet away” (Cayton 814).
In April 2013, Matthew Yglesias, an American Economics Journalist proposed the people of Bangladesh would not appreciate having stronger safety standards in their country because it would cause undue harm economically. He asserts Bangladesh should have different lower standards for safety because they are a poorer country. Most of the people involved in the New York tragedy of 1911 also known as the Triangle Fire, would not agree with Matthew Yglesias on his assertion that lower economic status would be an indication of lower safety standards in factories. Namely, the workers, the union leaders, the progressive reformers and the political leaders would all vote for higher standards commiserate with the United States. The only ones who would not argue with Yglesias are the owners of the Triangle Factory with their vested interest, their own problems of multiple fires and accusations of safety neglect.
On Thursday May 19, an Auschwitz mug that had a gold ring and necklace hidden was discovered by staff at a museum in Poland named Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. The jewelry in the mug was hidden 70 years ago by a death camp prisoner in Poland. Auschwitz is the Nazi camp in Poland that was liberated by Red Army troops in January 1945 and was where more than a million Jews were sent to their deaths. The jewelry was concealed in a thin pocket at the base of the mug with a false bottom on top. The ring and necklace were very well hidden, but due to the passage of time the materials degraded and the false bottom got separated from the mug.
The significance of female participation in the striking concretizes the conditions of
Document B shows that the average work day was from 4:30 am to 7:30 pm, and sometimes it was even longer. Thirteen to fourteen hour work days with a total of forty minutes break does not seem very fair. These women should be at home with their families or getting an education because during the Industrial Revolution, education became a very important to the people. Document B also states that if these women did not follow the appropriate break schedule, they would be kept for an even longer amount of time to work. Thirteen hours was already too much.
One of the main reasons the fire took such a psychological toll on the New Yorkers was because of the workers jumping to there deaths. One witness even remarked the event saying quote 'I know a new sound a terrible sound the sound of a body hitting the pavement". The inferno was also not an uncommon occurrence the triangle shirt was burned before the tragedy to collect insurance money. Knowing this information, many Jewish and women workers went on strike to secure improved working conditions. There strike in fact proved successful with the New York state legislature creating the Factory Investigating Commission.
The detrimental Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is considered to be one of the most tragic disasters in history. On March 25th, 1911, a fire broke out and killed 146 garment workers who were mostly women. These women worked countless hours with low wages and inhumane working conditions in a factory. Even though this event was tragic, the triangle shirtwaist fire helped to shape the new world for the better. The multitude of workers trapped within the inferno to their demise was the final straw for the mistreatment of America’s workers.
