Rethinking Our History
In this new weekly show from the host of The Paranormal Lovers we take a look at some of histories less well known events. Why are they less well known? Because " History is written by the victors."
So we are here to look at the other side of the story, and to give people a starting point to learn about the true history of this country.
Rethinking Our History
Episode 67: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire:
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We will be back in one week with our continuance of our look at the Crusades but this week we are going to look at an event that took place over a hundred years ago, but changed the way people did business forever.
At the turn of the century it was common to find sweatshops that employed hundreds of immigrants to make products; for little pay in terrible conditions.
At the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory they took things a step further and locked the doors leaving only one exit so that they could inspect bags as employees were leaving for the day.
And so, on March 25th 1911, over 400 workers found themselves in these conditions when a fire broke out on the 8th floor. With no fire alarms, smoke detectors, or sprinklers the employees were trapped high above the street with no way to escape.
ROH EP 67 Source Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirtwaist
https://rememberthetrianglefire.org/
https://www.history.com/articles/triangle-shirtwaist-fire
https://rememberthetrianglefire.org/memorial/
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