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Article: They did not die in vain.(Triangle: The Fire That Changed America)(Book Review)
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- The New Leader
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- July 1, 2003
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America By David Von Drehle Atlantic Monthly. 352 pp. $25.00.
THE AFTERNOON of March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top three floors of the 10-floor Asch Building, a block east of Manhattan's Washington Square, where 500 mostly young immigrant girls were producing shirts for the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Exits were locked, and the narrow fire escapes were inadequate. Panicked, many jumped from the windows to their deaths. The flames were under control in less than a half hour, but 146 people perished, 123 of them women.
Until now, Leon Stein's The Triangle Fire (1962) stood as the last word on the worst workplace ...