Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

New York: Grove Press, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. First printing. Bottom page ridge scuffed. 2003 Trade Paperback. 340 pp. It was a profitable business in a modern fireproof building heralded as a model of efficiency. Yet the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City became the deadliest workplace in American history when fire broke out on the premises on March 25, 1911. Within about 15 minutes the blaze killed 146 workers-most of them immigrant Jewish and Italian women in their teens and early 20s.