Ebook {Epub PDF} Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle

 · Posted at Shelf Inflicted Triangle: The Fire That Changed America is a moving and riveting account of the Triangle fire of Ma, the deadliest workplace disaster in New York City for 90 years. It destroyed the lives of workers, the majority of them young immigrant women.4/5. In Triangle: The Fire that Changed America, Von Drehle coalesces his critically acclaimed writing skills with knowledge of early s New York to create a masterpiece depicting the struggles of immigrant women and a catastrophic fire that drastically changed labor and safety laws in America. Von Drehle demonstrates convincingly how the Triangle case produced major pieces of workplace safety legislation and how progressive politicians skillfully used the tragedy to draw into the Democratic Party large numbers of voters who wished to see significant reforms in the American workplace Von Drehle’s meticulous research furnishes Triangle with the necessary historical Cited by:

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America () by David von Drehle On a beautiful spring day, Ma, workers were preparing to leave the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village when a fire started. Within minutes it consumed the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to. Editorial Reviews "Von Drehle has written what is sure to become the definitive account of the fire." -The New York Times Book Review "Triangle carries the reader deep into a portrait of early 20th Century New York when colorful machine politicians battled socialists, suffragists and upright progressive reformers for the soul of an increasingly immigrant city. Read "Triangle The Fire That Changed America" by David von Drehle available from Rakuten Kobo. This "outstanding history" of the disaster that changed the course of 20th-century politics and labor relations "is.

T riangle is a nonfiction book about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed people in New York City in Author David Von Drehle chronicles the history of the garment industry. 1 likes. Like. “The young immigrants in the garment factories, alight with a spirit of progress, impatient with the weight of tradition, hungry for improvement in a new land and a new century, organized themselves to demand a more fair and humane society.”. ― David von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. In Triangle: The Fire that Changed America, Von Drehle coalesces his critically acclaimed writing skills with knowledge of early s New York to create a masterpiece depicting the struggles of immigrant women and a catastrophic fire that drastically changed labor and safety laws in America.