-
Blanck and
Isaac Harris, the
factory produced women's blouses,
known as "
shirtwaists". The
factory normally emplo****
about 500 workers,
mostly young Italian...
- many
garment makers,
including the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory,
which was the site of the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that
killed 146
garment workers...
- A
Shirtwaist house is a
variation of the
American Four
Square architectural style,
predominantly built at the
beginning of the 20th century. It is characterized...
- female,
about half of whom were
under 20
years old. In the
production of
shirtwaists (blouses) in particular, the
workforce was
nearly all
Jewish women. Some...
-
States for the
bodice of a
dress or for a
blouse or woman's shirt. A
shirtwaist was
originally a
separate blouse constructed like a shirt; i.e., of shirting...
-
caught fire in the East River,
killing 1,021 people. In 1911, the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city's
worst industrial disaster,
killed 146 garment...
- 1982) was a
leader of the
Uprising of 20,000, the m****ive
strike of
shirtwaist workers in New York's
garment industry in 1909,
where she
spoke in Yiddish...
- to
leadership in the
Socialist party. Her 1910 novel, The
Diary of a
Shirtwaist Striker, is
credited with
helping to
reform New York
state labor laws...
-
September 2007. The
novel is a
fictionalized account of the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
According to
Maureen Paschal of The
Washington Post, it...
-
flattering look for most body types.
Shirtdresses were
sometimes called "
shirtwaist dresses" when they were
fashionable during the 1950s. The 1950s version...
