Vocabulary
A non-union worker who "stole" the strikers' jobs.
What is a scab?
Who is Bella?
This movie theater had an admission fee of one nickel
What is a nickelodeon?
Toward quitting time, some bosses would cover these to gain a few more minutes of work time.
What is a clock?
This character could be described as loyal, determined, courageous, and resilient.
Who is Yetta?
Another word for apartment. This dwelling was designed to house as many people as possible.
What is a tenement?
This revolutionary is a determined advocate for women's and workers rights! She peacefully fought hard for union recognition all while getting beaten and arrested on the picket lines!
Who is Yetta?
What is sweatshops?
This employee works long hours sewing women's blouses or shirtwaists.
What is a sewing machine operator?
This character grew throughout the story. She is known as being a loyal ally. By the end of the novel, this once "caged" girl became much more independent.
Who is Jane?
Yiddish for "sluggers: or "tough guys," gangsters who beat up anyone.
What is a shtarker?
Yetta's sister. After the strike ends, she marries and starts a family with Mr. Cohen. They run a grocery store together.
Who is Rahel?
Located in New York, twelve million immigrants passed through this reception center which closed in 1924.
What is Ellis Island?
They hired workers and paid their wages, they made the rules and fired employers at any time for any reason or no reason at all. They despised unions and hired shitakers, or strikebreakers, to beat strikers at the picket line.
Who are factory owners?
This is Jane's chaperone whom Jane attempts to fire. She is judgmental, bossy, unkind, and rude.
Who is Mrs. Millhouse?
The shutting down of an entire industry as a form of protest.
What is a general strike?
Born into wealth, she is a loyal ally to the Triangle Shirtwaist strikers. She is ashamed of her father's involvement with strikebreakers, cutting ties with her father and "rich" life.
Who is Jane?
This new-model factory occupied the top three floors of the Ashe Building and employed hundreds of workers. Workers here produced an early 1900's clothing design called a shirtwaist.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
These lists were exchanged to prevent "troublemakers" from getting jobs in the industry.
What are blacklists?
Bella and Yetta's strict, mean boss at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. He is a cheat who yells and mistreats the workers.
Who is Signor Carlotti?
An act of rising up; a revolt.
What is an uprising?
Both arrived at Ellis Island as poor immigrants. The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Also known as the "Shirtwaist Kings."
Who are Max Blanck and Isaac Harris?
Inside the Great Hall of this building is where many union meetings were held in the early 1900's. Classes were offered for free here too!
What is Cooper Union?
This rule, enforced at many factories, prevented workers from talking to one another. Factory owners were afraid of workers talking to one another about joining or organizing unions.
What is the silent rule?
This character is hardworking, dependable, honest and loyal. He has Jane's best interest in mind. Since Jane ran away from home, he continued to search for her until he finally found her outside the Triangle Factory a year later.
Who is Mr. Corrigan?