Nancy C. reviewed on 7/28/2005 + 44 more book reviews

David Von Drehle transports us to a beautiful spring day in March 1911 when 146 workers-most of them young immigrant women-lost their lives. Employee had jusst begun preparing to leave the Triangle shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village when a fire broke out and within minutes consumed the building's upper three stories. It was the worst workplace disaster in New York City history until 9/11. Behind the fire lay the extraordinary history of sweatshop labor and the fledgeling beginnings of union organizing.

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