The factory girls : a kaleidoscopic account of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire /
The twentieth century ushered in a new world filled with a dazzling array of consumer goods. For the first time in American history, fashion could be mass produced. Even the poorest immigrant girls could afford a blouse or two. But these same immigrant teens toiled away in factories in appalling wor...
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San Francisco, CA :
Zest Books,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Five brave girls
- A puff of smoke
- The price of fashion
- Coming to America
- The self-made man
- Life in the factory
- Corruption in the Gilded Age
- Union girls
- Triangle Factory on strike
- After the flames
- History repeats