“The Factory Girls: A Kaleidoscopic Account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire” by Christine Seifert; Zest Books (176 pages, $14.99) Near quitting time on a March Saturday in 1911, a cigarette started a fire in Manhattan’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Within 30 minutes, nearly 150 workers — predominantly young immigrant women — were dead, many of them having jumped from the ninth floor, where the doors had been locked. [...]
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