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The Fire of a Movement (2019-09-03)
About this film
This episode from the first season of The Future of America’s Past, a public television series, explores the history of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911 in New York City. Topics discussed include the demographics of the women who worked in the garment industry; the unsafe working conditions there and causes of the fire; the protests and changes to labor laws spurred by the fire; the recollections of a descendant of two women who worked at the Triangle Factory; the conditions of tenements that many garment workers lived in; newspaper coverage of the fire; an oratorio about the fire composed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe; a memorial to the workers designed by architects Richard Joon Yoo and Uri Wegman; and annual events to remember the fire’s victims.
Directors & creators
Field Studio
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Julia Wolfe, Richard Joon Yoo, Uri Wegman, garment industry, labor law, tenements, industrial accidents, women's labor history, New York City, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, labor unions, occupational safety
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