The Triangle Fire (Paperback)

~ (Author), William Greider (Introduction) "THE FIRST TOUCH of spring wanned the air..." (more)
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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: ILR Press; illustrated edition edition (April 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801487145
• ISBN-13: 978-0801487149
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #562,817 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read for the student of disasters, November 1, 2002

By	Barbara Higgins (Norristown, PA USA) - See all my reviews

Once I opened this book, I was hooked. The author's writing style grips you by the throat and drags you along with the survivors and the victims of this horrific yet history-making catastrophe! Every time you go into an office building and see a glowing exit sign, idly note that the doors have crash bars and open into the stairwell, or brush up against a fire extinguisher or hose cabinet, you'll remember why they're now mandated to be there. This disaster should never have happened, and this book explains why and how steps were taken to keep it from happening again. But it is also a book about people--those who made it out alive and those who didn't, and the little choices that made the difference.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Labor at a Crisis Moment, April 2, 2005

By	Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Leon Stein is a marvelous story-teller, who in THE TRIANGLE FIRE, shows incredible restraint. Given his pro-union, pro-labor background, you can almost hear him checking himself--holding back from screaming at an anti-labor era in America that caused so many needless deaths and injuries. Published on, roughly, the 50th anniversary of the disaster, Stein presents a story of young immigrant girls standing up against sweatshop atrocities, only to find themselves, in the case of the girls laboring at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, pushed further down. The account of the disaster is appropriately harrowing.

William Greider's introduction, although occassionally heavy-handed, makes the reader wonder how much things have improved now that we are almost marking the 100th anniversary of that awful day.

Also, it would be worthwhile to read this in conjunction with David von Driehle's superb "Triangle: The Fire that Changed America".

Rocco Dormarunno, author of "The Five Points".

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leon Stein is a genius, January 28, 1998

By	L. Rawles (Middle of the Middle, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Triangle Fire (Paperback)

I used this book to write a 33 page paper concerning the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. It is not only fascinating, but the most thorough work on this tragic subject I could find. He is a fantastic author and documentarian.