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International Ladies’ Garments Workers’ Union› Negotiated a Bargain
National Historic Landmark
500 Workers Average Wage = $6
per week 1909 – Uprising of
20k (Strike)
Worst Disaster 150 deaths Mar. 25, 1911 Cause Unknown Tried to jump
Remnants of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Wrote The Jungle› Published in 1906› Depicts poverty
Socialist Muckraker Food Safety =
Primary Issue Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug
Act (FDA)
Tenements were terrible structures that no one would want to live in today.
Because of the hazard they posed to their occupants, they led to laws that eventually made these buildings illegal.