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judym
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posted 07 March 2002 04:46 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A fantastic site created by Cornell University.


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This site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century and the resulting investigations and reforms. You will find original documents, oral histories, and photographs. You can hear and read first-hand accounts by survivors and others that will provide a glimpse into the lives of workers and a sense of the horrors of a factory fire that claimed the lives of 146 young workers.

Kheel Center

[ March 07, 2002: Message edited by: judym ]


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skdadl
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posted 07 March 2002 05:33 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I just read William Shepherd's eyewitness account of the fire. Rivetting.

Perhaps the noise being made about the Rand formula on a thread above could be read in the context of this story -- see Shepherd's last sentences.


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audra trower williams
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posted 07 March 2002 07:44 PM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Rasputina have a really good song about the triangle shirtwaist fire.
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DrConway
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posted 07 March 2002 08:57 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Incidentally, William Greider and Naomi Klein have both drawn parallels to the large Kader fire in, if memory serves, Thailand.

(Will edit if I check and the country's wrong)


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