@itsjillianrowe: 146 people died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. Most were young immigrant women and girls, some as young as 14. And the more you learn about why they couldn’t escape, the more fucking infuriating this story gets. Locked doors. A collapsed fire escape. Fire ladders that couldn’t reach. Rescue nets that tore apart when people jumped. But wait, there’s more! The factory owners were acquitted of manslaughter, reportedly collected $60,000 more in insurance than their losses, and the victims’ families later received just $75 per person covered by the civil settlement. And one of the owners was fined $20 for another locked factory exit just two years later. This wasn’t just a tragic fire. It was a catastrophic failure of workplace safety, and 146 people paid for it with their lives. Welcome to Nopevember. #Nopevember #TriangleShirtwaistFire #LaborHistory #WomensHistory #HistoryTok
Jillian Rowe Cohen
Region: US
Thursday 12 November 2026 23:11:28 GMT
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Kara-mel :
nearly every law is written in blood.
2026-11-13 00:40:08
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Savannah Lane :
I remember being SO ANGRY about this when we learned it in school. I just couldn’t understand how the people in charge didn’t care….
2026-11-12 23:17:27
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OkayishNeurodivergentMom :
All those methods they used to save people sounds like something from looney tunes
2026-11-13 02:46:44
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Angel | Culture & Commentary :
Thank you for talking about this, and for NOT using AI imagery or narration to do it 😭👏
2026-11-13 02:05:51
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Earlgrey59 :
One of the major disasters that lead to mandatory building and fire codes. Tragic.
2026-11-12 23:46:20
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Amber_Mow :
The Victorian H&M
2026-11-12 23:22:25
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Franci :
ONLY $75 per victim is wild 😭
2026-11-13 03:37:21
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rutabagaslim :
every SINGLE time i have to pull a door to exit a building …. i shake my head and say “triangle shirtwaist”
2026-11-13 00:14:50
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Rhabdo Barbie :
The Dear America book Hear My Sorrow taught me about this
2026-11-12 23:59:30
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kp :
the building that housed the factory is now owned by NYU! i attended tons of classes inside, it was a bit unnerving tbh.
2026-11-13 02:27:13
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Colleen :
This is the epitome of “Don’t worry, it gets worse.”
2026-11-13 00:00:14
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Meg 🩵 :
I still bring this up every time someone says unions are bad
2026-11-13 00:40:57
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sid :
when i learned about this in seventh grade history, i became so actually obsessed with it. i know everything there is to know about the triangle shirtwaist factory fire!!😭😭😭
2026-11-12 23:22:56
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shasta794 :
This makes me so mad
2026-11-13 04:57:24
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ExtinctBeipiaosaurus :
Ashes of Roses is a good book about this.
2026-11-12 23:36:27
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Chrystine.with.a.y :
This one makes me more angry everytime I hear about it
2026-11-13 05:48:44
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Luanne Goldman :
Wow, just horrifying for these victims.
2026-11-13 01:21:10
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talita ✮⋆˙ :
I remember learning about this in school it’s something I genuinely think about multiple times a week like no way
2026-11-13 01:44:53
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Izz Long :
I remember reading a book about this in i believe 9th or 10th grade, probably 10th for AP English. One of my classmates actually found out that she had an ancestor that had skipped work at the factory that day.
2026-11-13 00:58:39
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tickytack :
there's a song about this I think it's called my little shirtwaist fire by rasputina
2026-11-13 01:23:16
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TheGayestUnicorn :
how could they get away with saying they didn't know the doors were locked if it was their policy? was it never written down? did none of the surviving employees testify? I knew about this, but not that the owners basically got away with it
2026-11-13 02:49:14
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roll4karisma :
i was a WRECK learning about this in school. i remember being so devastated that they had so little regard for all those people. they made us read about it and then watch a movie/documentary i believe. i was in tears through the whole film.
2026-11-13 00:30:54
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exactlywattonachain :
For anyone curious, $75 then is about 2,600 now, and that $60,000 is well over 2 million.
2026-11-13 05:00:56
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Lizzy l 🕵️ :
First time I hear about this! It’s so sad! 😭
2026-11-13 02:09:54
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Sharon from Anacortes :
Nightmare.
2026-11-12 23:31:21
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