The Triangle Fire : a brief history with documents
(Book)

Part One. Introduction: The fire that changed America. The garment industry and its workers ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand" ; The Triangle tragedy : grief and outrage ; "The fire that lit the nation" : investigations and reform

Part Two. The documents. The garment industry and its workers. 1. Fire and the skyscraper : the problem of protecting workers in New York's tower factories / Arthur E. McFarlane (September 1911) ; 2. The shirtwaist trade / Pearl Goodman and Elsa Ueland (December 1910) ; 3. Italian women in industry: a study of conditions in New York City / Louise C. Odencrantz (1919) ; 4. The story of a sweatshop girl / Sadie Frowne (September 25, 1902) ; 5. Life in the shop / Clara Lemlich (November 26, 1909) ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand" ; 6. Arrest strikers for being assaulted / New York Times (November 5, 1909) ; 7. Women in a labor war : how the working girls of New York East Side have learned to use men's weapons in a struggle for better conditions / Allan L. Benson (April 1910) ; 8. Church to the aid of girl strikers / New York Times (December 20, 1909) ; 9. The Shirtwaist Makers' strike / Constance D. Leupp (December 18, 1909 ; 10. The uprising of the twenty thousands (dedicated to the Waistmakers of 1909), (1910) ; The Triangle tragedy: grief and outrage. 11. The Triangle Fire / New York World (March 27, 1911) ; 12. Partners' account of the disaster / New York Times (March 26, 1911) ; 13. The Washington Place fire / Rosey Safran (April 20, 1911) ; 14. The factory girl's danger / Miriam Finn Scott (April 15, 1911) ; 15. 120,000 pay tribute to the fire victims / New York Times (April 6, 1911) ; 16. Emergency relief after the Washington Place Fire, New York, March 25, 1911 / report of the Red Cross Emergency Relief Committee of the Charity Organization of the Society of the City of New York (1912) ; 17. Budgets of the Triangle Fire victims / Elizabeth Dutcher (September 1912) ; 18. The Triangle fire / Martha Bensley Bruere (May 1911) ; 19. All for one / Rose Schneiderman (1967) ; "The fire that lit the nation" : investigations and reform. 20. Indictments in the Asch Fire case / The Outlook (April 22, 1911) ; 21. Triangle witnesses got increased pay / New York Times (December 22, 1911) ; 22. 147 dead, nobody guilty / Literary Digest (January 6, 1912) ; 23. What the grave covers / Chicago Daily Tribune (September 30, 1913) ; 24. Preliminary report of the Factory Investigating Commission / State of New York (1912) ; 25. The Roosevelt I knew / Frances Perkins (1946)

Appendixes. A chronology of the Triangle Fire (1900-2011) ; Questions for consideration ; Selected bibliography ; Index.