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Triangle: the Fire That Changed America [Buy it!] | Von Drehle, David | USD 13.00 (Thu May 23 22:28:21 2024) | Alibris | Storbeck's via Alibris | New York Atlantic Monthly 2003 First Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards with ivory spine imprinted in metallic red with title and author. Black endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. 340 pages. Describes the devastating 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, the Jewish and Italian immigrants, mostly women, who made up the majority of the victims, and the implications of the catastrophe on twentieth-century politics and labor relations. |