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Preferred term
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Definition
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory is best known as the site of a deadly fire that blazed for 18 minutes in the late afternoon of March 25, 1911. On the ninth floor of the Asch Building, which housed the factory just off Washington Square in New York City, hundreds of young women and girls were trapped by fire. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Triangle Shirtwaist Fire]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Triangle_Shirtwaist_fire
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