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Talking to the girls : intimate and political essays on the Triangle fire /

Candid and intimate accounts of the factory-worker tragedy that shaped American labor rights. On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Greenwich Village, New York. The top three floors housed the Triangle Waist Company, a factory where approximately 500 workers...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Giunta, Edvige (Editor), Trasciatti, Mary Anne (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Village Press, [2022].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Triangle Shirtwaist Company > Fire, 1911.
Labor movement > New York (State) > New York.
Clothing factories > New York (State) > New York.
Women immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Talking to the Girls / Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti
  • Another Spring / Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
  • The New Deal Began with My Grandmother Frances Perkins / Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall and the Reverend Charles Hoffacker
  • The Triangle Factory Fire and the City of Two Who Survived / Ellen Gruber Garvey
  • Girl Talk / Paola Corso
  • A Legacy of Grief : In Search of Rosie Weiner / Suzanne Pred Bass
  • My Father, Isidore Abramowitz / Martin Abramowitz
  • The Two Roses : A Great-Niece Remembers / Annie Schneiderman Valliere
  • Triangle in Two Acts : From Bubbe Mayses to Bangladesh / Annelise Orleck
  • Teaching the Triangle Fire to Middle School Students / Kimberly Schiller
  • Remembering the Triangle Fire in California / Laura E. Ruberto
  • Teaching the Girls : The Triangle Fire as Affective History / Jacqueline Ellis
  • Solidarity Forever! / May Y. Chen
  • Remembering Family : Labor Activism and the Triangle Fire / Michele Fazio
  • They Were Not There : A Rumination on the Meaning of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to Black Garment Workers in Early-Twentieth-Century New York City / Janette Gayle
  • Chalk and Smoke, Fabric and Thread : Reflections on Feminist Commemoration and the Triangle Fire / Ellen Wiley Todd
  • And They Returned Home : Italy Remembers the Triangle Fire Women / Ester Rizzo Licata (Translated by Edvige Giunta)
  • The Fabric of Memory / Richard Joon Yoo
  • Epilogue : Listening to Kalpona / Kalpona Akter (Interviewed Edvige Giunta Mary Anne Trasciatti).