The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911

Elton Weintz,professor of history at Macomb Community College,examines the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire tragedy of 1911,including the working conditions faced by immigrant women in the early 1900s and the reforms initiated in its aftermath. This presentation is part of a series of programs, The Gilded Age to the Great War: America at the Turn of the Century.