Key Events
Labor Day is always celebrated on this day of the week.
What is Monday?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire took place in this city.
What is New York City?
Unions are utilized today partly because they can persuade employers to provide these - advantages that help their employees, that aren't directly money paid to them.
What are benefits?
This term was used to describe a work place, typically a factory, with sub-par, unsafe, and/or unhealthy working conditions.
What is a sweatshop?
Samuel Gompers' failed attempt to strike at his cigar factory led to him creating this organization.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Strikers from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire had the support of this prominent lady, who helped them in their fight for better working conditions.
Who is Anne Morgan?
This process, usually conducted between a union leader and the manager of a work place, allows contracts and agreements to be constructed for people who sign on to work in a particular place.
What is negotiation?
This term was used to describe journalists, writers, and reporters who typically worked semi-undercover to expose the truth about living and working conditions in big cities during the Industrial Revolution.
This 1911 disaster led to the death of 146 workers, and forced many work places to adopt a wide variety of work-safety related laws.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
In order to prevent theft and materials being stolen, this was done at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
What is the locking of exits and checking of bags?
This is the act of stopping work with the intention of harming a business' profit margins and sales, often to try and get better working conditions.
What is striking?
This fatal flaw with the firetrucks that arrived to the scene of the Triangle Fire was a major reason that so many people were killed in the incident.
What are short ladders?
This celebration in New York City in 1882 recognizing those that stood up for worker's rights later became a national holiday.
What is Labor Day?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire led directly to these, improving the condition of the work place across the country.
What is reform/new laws?
Many of the strikers from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were these, which, unfortunately, hurt their ability to get what they wanted.
This was the fate of the Triangle owners after being accused of manslaughter for their misdeeds upon their employees at their factory.
What is acquitted/being let go?