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Hidden Impact of Sweatshop Laws

By Ruth Andrew Ellenson
Published on August 28, 2003

Is your image of a sweatshop a black-and- white photograph of Jewish garment workers marching for labor rights 100 years ago, or the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911, in which hundreds of Jewish workers were trapped inside a burning building in New York (see sidebar)?

Sweatshop Days

By Leonard Fein
Published on February 22, 2001

Rose Freedman has died.

Her death at 107 years of age has been widely noted, for Freedman was the last living survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire, a calamity that claimed 146 lives. Just months ago, she was featured in a PBS documentary, "The Living Century," which told not only of her experience 90 years ago, but also of the remarkable life she led thereafter. That life -- as The New York Times put it -- was both "colorful and courageous," right up until her last days in her home in Beverly Hills.

Labor Lore

By Tom Tugend
Published on August 17, 2000

In 1776, printers in New York City organized and declared a strike in support of the newly formed United States of America.

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