SECONDARY SOURCES, TRAGEDY AS A TURNING POINT FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE

Molly Brambil, Megan Healy and Caitlin Yabroudy Senior Group Website Division

- 20,000 Women Strike for Worker's Rights / Women 's Leadership in America History. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2013. The City University of New York provided details about the great strike of 1909. -"Account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial." Account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2013. This website gave us a detailed description of the trial and the verdict. -"After The Triangle Fire: State And National Workplace Safety Reforms." Political Correction. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2013. This helped tell us about the thirty six different laws that were created as a result of the fire. -"Do Americans Today Still Need Labor Unions?" The Heritage Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Apr. 2013. <http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2008/04/doamericans-today-still-need-labor-unions>. This website was helpful in finding out facts about labor unions and how they still affect us today. -Dont Mourn Organize Lessons from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. N.p., n.d. This resource provided us with information about how citizens in New York City and all over America reacted to the Triangle Fire. -Finn, Paula, ed. "The Legacy of the Triangle Fire." New Labor Forum 20.1 (2011): n. pag. Print. This journal helped show the various laws and affects of the Triangle Fire on the present day laws. -Greenhouse, Steven. "Union Membership in U.S. Fell to a 70-Year Low Last Year." The New York Times. The New York Times, 22 Jan. 2011. Web. 08 Apr. 2013. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/business/22union.html?_r=0>. We used this source to find a graph of unions. -"Highlights." Occupational Safety and Health Administration. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2013. This source helped us understand todays laws and unions and how they were affected by the fire that happened over 100 years ago. -Historian Annelise Orleck on the Labor-Rights Activism of the Triangle Shirtwaist . . Factory Workers. YouTube, n.d. Web. This video provided us with information about the Garment Worker's Strike of

1909. -"History, First Hand- Triangle Fire." History, First Hand- Triangle Fire. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2013. This website provided a quote regarding the Women's Trade Union League's protest prior to the fire. -"If Labor Dies, What's Next?" The American Prospect. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Apr. 2013. This website provided us with more information on unions and how they are helpful for us today. -"Judge Overturns Wisconsin Union Law." Algemeinercom RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Apr. 2013. This source gave us evidence about unions that we needed to prove our point. -Marrin, Albert. Flesh and Blood so Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Print. This book provided us with specific information about the factory and the fire as well as information about how the fire acted as a turning point. -"The Names Map." Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2013. This interactive map provided us with a creative resource that shows where the workers lived. Many of the workers lived near the factory while other had to commute from other neighborhoods and even boroughs. -"New York State Department of Labor." -. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This resource provided us with specific information about the laws that were passed as a result of the Triangle Fire. -"New York University." NYU 2031: NYU in NYC. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr. 2013. This source provided us with the necessary information about how the Brown Building is now used by NYU today, compared to when it was a factory. -"Old New York." Labor Activist Rosa Schneiderman. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2012. This resource provided us with information on labor activist Rose Schneiderman and how her actions played a large role in the outcome of the Triangle Fire. -PBS: Triangle Fire: The Tragedy That Forever Changed Labor and Industry. Dir. Jamilia Wignot. By Mark Zwonitzer. 2011. DVD. This documentary provided us with an overview of the Triangle Factory and the events of Marc 25, 1911. We watched this documentary before we started our research so we had a basic understanding of the topic and how it affected the history of the United States. -"Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire." CBSNews. CBS Interactive, n.d. Web. 05

Apr. 2013. This video helped give an overall summary of what happened on March 25, 1911. -"Perkins, Frances: The Roosevelt Years." Social Welfare History Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Apr. 2013. This source provided us with helpful information about Frances Perkins. -Resnikoff, Ned. "Michigan GOP May Soon Consider More Anti-union Measures." Msnbc. N.p., 3 Apr. 2013. Web. This source helped provide us with information regarding todays unions. -"Right to Work States | National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation." NRTW News Views RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Apr. 2013. <http://www.nrtw.org/rtws.htm>. This source provided us with a map of the unions in the US today. -"Triangle Fire Open Archive." Triangle Fire Open Archive Home Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2013. This website helped us learn more about the commemoration and the details of the 100th anniversary. -"Triangle Returns." YouTube. YouTube, 22 Mar. 2011. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This video provided us with information on how certain third world countries are still experiencing the conditions workers at the Triangle Factory once had to face. -"The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire." The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2012. This website provided us with information about the specific events of March 25, 1911. -"Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2012. This resource provided us with information about the response to the Triangle Fire. -"Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire." About.com 20th Century History. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2012. This resource provided us with information on the long term effects of the Triangle Fire -"The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911." The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This resource provided us with information on the long term effects of the Triangle Fire and how it acted as a turning point. -"The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial." The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013.

This resource provided us with information about the trial of the Triangle Factory owners. - "Unions Protest Michigan Vote." Times Union. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Apr. 2013. This source provided us with helpful pictures on the union issue. -"United States Department of Labor." United States Department of Labor. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2013. This source helped us find information on the organizations and laws that are in affect today. -Von, Drehle David. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2003. Print. This book provided us with information about the effects of the Triangle Fire and how it acted as a turning point. -Workers Rights-The Rights to Join a Union." N.p., n.d. Web. This was helpful in finding facts about unions. -Working Conditions in the Industrial Revolution. N.p., n.d. Web. This resource provided us with information about the Industrial Revolution and the conditions workers during the early 20th century often had to face.