Sweatshop
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A sweatshop or sweat factory is defined as "a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions". Examples of unhealthy conditions include little to no
A sweatshop in the United States c. 1890
Child laborer 1909, Lewis Wickes Hine
Lewis Hine noted poor working conditions when he photographed workers at the Western Dress Factory in Millville, New Jersey, for the WPA's National Research Project (1937)
A sweatshop in a New York tenement building, c. 1889
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, a borough of New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911. The fire was the deadliest industrial disaste
Sweatshop
…How the Other Half Lives (1890) and Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle (1906), a fictionalized account of the meat packing industry. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire galvanized negative public perceptions of sweatshops in New York City. The outrage that followed led to the implementation of minimum wage laws, fire…
Image of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25 1911
A horse-drawn fire engine on the way to the burning factory
A photograph of the building's south side, which ran the day after the disaster in the March 26, 1911, issue of The New York Times. Windows marked by an X are those from which 50 women jumped.
62 people jumped or fell from windows.