I wonder what my Great Aunt Fannie would think of today’s American workplace, with a percolating revival of its labor movement. Jonathan Lansner’s great aunt Fannie died in the the Triangle Fire in ...

She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life to promoting worker safety. By Douglas Martin To Michael Hirsch, the ...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was one of the deadliest fires in U.S. history. The fire resulted in the deaths of ...

A hundred years ago today, at about 4:40 p.m., a warm Saturday afternoon, a fire started in the eighth floor of the Asch Building at 23 Washington Place in New York City and rapidly engulfed the ...

Inside a building in Greenwich Village, NYU Ph.D. and postdoctoral students follow a familiar routine. They take the elevator to a laboratory on the top floor, where they sit for hours perched over ...

What 3 components are required for combustion to occur? What 3 components are required for combustion to occur? Join Peyton today at the McWane Science Center to learn about the combustion triangle ...

On the 113th anniversay of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su recalled the lives lost as well as the legacy of former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, who ...

I wonder what my Great Aunt Fannie would think of today’s American workplace, with a percolating revival of its labor movement. On March 25, 1911, Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of my ...