International Ladies’ Garments Workers’ Union› Negotiated a Bargain

National Historic Landmark

500 Workers Average Wage = $6

per week 1909 – Uprising of

20k (Strike)

Worst Disaster 150 deaths Mar. 25, 1911 Cause Unknown Tried to jump

Remnants of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Wrote The Jungle› Published in 1906› Depicts poverty

Socialist Muckraker Food Safety =

Primary Issue Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug

Act (FDA)

Tenements were terrible structures that no one would want to live in today.

Because of the hazard they posed to their occupants, they led to laws that eventually made these buildings illegal.