The oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, who was born in Italy and lived in the United States for six years at the time of her death, notes Cornell University. The two youngest victims, ...

Next week marks the 114th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, a tragedy that claimed the lives of 146 garment workers, primarily women and girls as young as 14 years ...

She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life to promoting worker safety. By Douglas Martin To Michael Hirsch, the ...

I wonder what my Great Aunt Fannie would think of today’s American workplace, with a percolating revival of its labor movement. On March 25, 1911, Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of my ...

On March 25, 1911, 146 people died as a result of a fire that broke out on the top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. On the bosses’ ...