The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

History 102

Web Module # ii

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Introduction:

Slap-up tragedies often reveal much virtually social atmospheric condition and the historical issues confronting people.  The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was merely such an event.  The news of this burn in a garment factory in New York Metropolis created a sensation across the The states partly because of the corking loss of life, primarily young immigrant girls, and partly because the Progressive Motility and organized labor had been exposing the unhealthy working weather condition under which millions Americans and foreign-built-in workers earned wages.  Part of the daze was the fact that it occurred in New York State, which at the fourth dimension had some of the near progressive labor regulations in the country.  The Triangle Fire would have a profound impact on the acceptance of labor organizations, especially the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), and the shape of their activities for years.  While changes were afflicted, it may be the biggest tragedy of all that the weather that created the Triangle Fire keep to exist in the garment industry in the Usa to a limited degree, merely are often the norm of garment manufacturing in tertiary world countries today.  The issues raised by the Triangle Shirtwaist Burn still resonate in the debate over universities making money off sports wearing apparel manufactured under sweatshop conditions.
The primary goal (1) of this web module assignment is to evaluate the information contained at the Triangle Shirtwaist Burn on-line archive maintained by The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell Academy.  A secondary goal (ii) is to determine what information within each section of the on-line archives is most useful in agreement the causes, events, and results of this fire.  A third (iii) goal is to develop a sense of document bias.  Lastly, (4) students are asked to determine if there is historical information lacking which they feel necessary to understand the historical context of this event.  The practise is to exist conducted in the post-obit fashion:

Consignment:

  1. For the preliminary analysis of the documents do the following:
    1. Read over the documents in low-cal of the questions provided.  (Note: There are choices to exist fabricated)
    2. Describe the contents of the selected documents.
    3. How were the specific documents created?
  2. For the concluding analysis report exercise the following:
    1. Building on the preliminary analysis write a report that explains the causes and responses to the burn.
    2. What practice the documents taken together inform us nearly weather in the garment manufacture at the beginning of the xxth Century.
    3. What evidence best supports your analysis.
    4. After reviewing the materials effort to put yourself in the place of a middle course American living in 1911.  What do you think your would have been your reaction to the news and the investigation?  Explain why y'all think this would exist your response.

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on-line archive contains the following sections:

    • Home
    • Introduction
    • Political Cartoons
    • Photographs
    • Oral Histories
    • Sweatshops and Strikes before 1911
    • The Triangle Fire
    • Relief Work and Investigative Activities
    • Morn the Dead
    • Fire Victims

    Go to the web site    http://world wide web.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

    1. Read the Introduction.
    2. Briefly await over the other sections.
    3. Make up one's mind which section(s) contain the about relevant materials required to understand what happened to cause the burn.  Explain why they are the most important.
    4. Who was most likely to die in the fire?
    5. What sections best explain the groundwork to the burn down?  Why?
    6. Are at that place documents that support each other?  Which ones?
    7. Are at that place documents that contradict other documents?
    8. Practise you find gaps in the documents?  What kinds of documents would make full those gaps?
    9. Are there any serious biases in the materials and the way they are presented?

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