Welcome to Triangle Shirwaist Factory Fire and More. Here you may find information about:
-Woman's Rights.
-Immigration.
-Italians in America.
-Worker's rights.
-Workplace saftey improvements after the Fire of 1911.
-& much more!
Hope you find what you are looking for.
viernes, 18 de mayo de 2012
Bibliography
-"Digital History." Digital History. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/italian_immigration.cfm>.
-Gilbert, Steven. "Attachments." Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire>.
-"Immigration: The Italians." ThinkQuest. Oracle Foundation. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Italian.html>.
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-Solis, Hilda L. "What the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Means for Workers Now." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2011. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire-means-for-workers-now/2011/03/15/ABVAFIs_story.html>.
-"The Story of Italian Immigration." The Story of Italian Immigration. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://www.ailf.org/awards/benefit2004/ahp04essay.asp>.
-"Women's Suffrage: Suffrage Organizations." American Women. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awmss5/suffrage_orgs.html>.
Worker's rights today.
The fire led up to many things, including improved worker's rights and saftey regulations in the workplace.
Twenty-two years after,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her secretary of labor, the first
woman to serve as a Cabinet secretary. During her 12-year tenure, she directed
the formulation and implementation of the Social Security Act, one of the most
important pieces of social legislation in our history. Among other
extraordinary accomplishments, she helped create unemployment insurance, the
minimum wage, and the legislation that guarantees the right of workers to
organize and bargain collectively. She also established the department’s Labor
Standards Bureau, a precursor to what is now the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA). Perkins clearly had the Triangle victims in mind as she
weaved the nation’s social safety net.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire-means-for-workers-now/2011/03/15/ABVAFIs_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire-means-for-workers-now/2011/03/15/ABVAFIs_story.html
Character: Bella.
Much of the inspiration to write this blog came from the novel Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix. In her book, one of the three main characters is Bella, a young Italian immigrant just newly arrived in America, with many hopes and dreams. She comes to America to help her family back in Italy; hoping to send money back to them. She is greated by her cousin Pietro, to whom she finds herself inmensely attracted to. He takes her to the Lucianos, an Italian family that rents her a tenament. She starts working in the triangle shirwast factory, after Pietro gets her the job. After a while living with them, Pietro has to leave, as the construction company he worked for moved to another state. Bella was devastated, and to even worsen everything, she finds out the Luciano's have been cheating her and never sent her money back home, and now her family is all dead. She later meets Yetta, a Russian immigrant with a passion for rebellion, and ideas of a strike. She had a sister named Rahael, who had ran away from Russia after having problems with the government for her rebelious acts. She then meets Jane, a rich girl who ran away from home.She has an interesting point of view of the world, taking in appreciation the smallest things. She is very grateful of her life in America, as she had close to nothing back in Italy. She is usually the one that cheers up the group of friends, and is a very humble girl. Bella is deeply involved in a strike that Yetta and Rahael started, and works hard everyday for a change. After a while, the strike ends, with some points won and others lost. After a few months of struggling through, the fire happens. She wants to die, but survives to save other people. She is the only one of the three friends, Bella, Yetta and Jane, that survives the fire, she then marries the Luciano's son (who was adopted by a graduate's famlily to become Rocco Livingston) and becomes Miss Livingston, who tells the story.
Immigration: Italians.
During the mass emigration from Italy during the century between 1876 to 1976, the U.S. was the largest single recipient of Italian immigrants in the world. However, their impact was not as great as countries like Argentina and Brazil. That was due to the fact that hundreds of thousands of immigrants from nations all over the world were migrating to the U.S. at the same time and American born natives already made up the majority ethnic group. The Italians did play a major role though, socially with individuals rising to national stature in many different fields.
In 1850, less than 4,000 Italians were reportedly in the U.S. However in 1880, merely four years after the influx of Italian immigrants migrated, the population skyrocketed to 44,000, and by 1900, 484,027. From 1880 to 1900, southern Italian immigrants became the predominant Italian immigrant and stayed that way throughout the mass migration. Despite the increase numbers, the Italians were not the largest foreign-origin group in American cities. Outnumbered by groups migrating for decades before them. Italians only made-up 1.5% of the U.S. population at its peak.
In the U.S. where the abundance of cheap land could no longer be found, the mostly agricultural Italians in Italy, became mostly urban. Starting from the bottom of the occupational ladder working up, they worked jobs such as shoe shinning, ragpicking, sewer cleaning, and whatever hard, dirty, dangerous jobs others didn't want. Even children worked at an early age, as in Italy, even at the expense of their educations. The Italians were known for rarely accepting charity or resorting to prostitution for money, another reflection of patterns in Italy.
As in many other places in the world, Italians in America clustered into groups related to their place of origin. For example, the Neapolitans and Sicilians settled in different parts of New York, and even people from different parts of Sicily settled on different streets. However, what seldom occurred in U.S. were Italians enclaves, or all-Italians neighborhoods. The Italians would disperse themselves in other immigrant groups, such as, the Irish, the Jews, the Germans, and the Poles, while remaining in their clusters. Also, immigrants usually settled in different regions of U.S. based in where they came from in Italy. The Sicilians resided in New Orleans, the Neapolitans and Calabrians in Minnesota, and mostly northern Italians in California. However most of the Italians were concentrated in the mid Atlantic states in 1910 with 472,000 in New York and nearly 200,000 in Pennsylvania at the time.
The living conditions for the Italians tended to be over crowded and filthy all over the U.S.. Italian laborers also tended to skimp on food in a desperate attempt to save money. However, after time and new generations of Italians, the dirtiness of their homes disappeared along with the complaint of weak Italians from lack of nutrition.
The Italians were noted for their diligence and sobriety as workmen. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, Italians often became fishermen, shoemakers, waiters, fruit sellers, and tradesmen. Most were unskilled laborers though, working in mines and construction jobs. Over the years, the Italians rose up the economic scale but acquiring job skills in blue-collar job rather than by becoming educated and entering that profession.
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Italian.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/italian_immigration.cfm
http://www.ailf.org/awards/benefit2004/ahp04essay.asp
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpim1.htm
In 1850, less than 4,000 Italians were reportedly in the U.S. However in 1880, merely four years after the influx of Italian immigrants migrated, the population skyrocketed to 44,000, and by 1900, 484,027. From 1880 to 1900, southern Italian immigrants became the predominant Italian immigrant and stayed that way throughout the mass migration. Despite the increase numbers, the Italians were not the largest foreign-origin group in American cities. Outnumbered by groups migrating for decades before them. Italians only made-up 1.5% of the U.S. population at its peak.
In the U.S. where the abundance of cheap land could no longer be found, the mostly agricultural Italians in Italy, became mostly urban. Starting from the bottom of the occupational ladder working up, they worked jobs such as shoe shinning, ragpicking, sewer cleaning, and whatever hard, dirty, dangerous jobs others didn't want. Even children worked at an early age, as in Italy, even at the expense of their educations. The Italians were known for rarely accepting charity or resorting to prostitution for money, another reflection of patterns in Italy.
As in many other places in the world, Italians in America clustered into groups related to their place of origin. For example, the Neapolitans and Sicilians settled in different parts of New York, and even people from different parts of Sicily settled on different streets. However, what seldom occurred in U.S. were Italians enclaves, or all-Italians neighborhoods. The Italians would disperse themselves in other immigrant groups, such as, the Irish, the Jews, the Germans, and the Poles, while remaining in their clusters. Also, immigrants usually settled in different regions of U.S. based in where they came from in Italy. The Sicilians resided in New Orleans, the Neapolitans and Calabrians in Minnesota, and mostly northern Italians in California. However most of the Italians were concentrated in the mid Atlantic states in 1910 with 472,000 in New York and nearly 200,000 in Pennsylvania at the time.
The living conditions for the Italians tended to be over crowded and filthy all over the U.S.. Italian laborers also tended to skimp on food in a desperate attempt to save money. However, after time and new generations of Italians, the dirtiness of their homes disappeared along with the complaint of weak Italians from lack of nutrition.
The Italians were noted for their diligence and sobriety as workmen. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, Italians often became fishermen, shoemakers, waiters, fruit sellers, and tradesmen. Most were unskilled laborers though, working in mines and construction jobs. Over the years, the Italians rose up the economic scale but acquiring job skills in blue-collar job rather than by becoming educated and entering that profession.
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Italian.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/italian_immigration.cfm
http://www.ailf.org/awards/benefit2004/ahp04essay.asp
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpim1.htm
Here are some photos from the fire
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Women's Rights.
A political cartoon about women's rights.
May Day Parade.
I DO not have all the rights I want. I want the right to close the mines and mills against the babies and to drive the beaters
hired by corporations into a better business. I want the right to put decent and educated men into the offices which shall control the education of my children and the safety of my home. I want the right to legally own my child and my day's wages in every State in the country. I want the right to say what shall be the tariff on the child's shoes, and whether the judge who may condemn me to death shall be a wise man or an ignorant politician. I want the, right to protect women and men\mor,e unfortunate than myself, and to bring to myself the advantages, blessings) and liberty which are mine under the constitution. I want all the rights which have to do with dignity, power, honor, usefulness, patriotism, citizenship and I want them now. Jane.
hired by corporations into a better business. I want the right to put decent and educated men into the offices which shall control the education of my children and the safety of my home. I want the right to legally own my child and my day's wages in every State in the country. I want the right to say what shall be the tariff on the child's shoes, and whether the judge who may condemn me to death shall be a wise man or an ignorant politician. I want the, right to protect women and men\mor,e unfortunate than myself, and to bring to myself the advantages, blessings) and liberty which are mine under the constitution. I want all the rights which have to do with dignity, power, honor, usefulness, patriotism, citizenship and I want them now. Jane.
Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911; Scrapbook 9; page 1
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