@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

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phone.is.dead
Kara-mel :
nearly every law is written in blood.
2026-11-13 00:40:08
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savannahmendoza63
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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okayishneurodiver
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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kalritzagain
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
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
Amber_Mow :
The Victorian H&M
2026-11-12 23:22:25
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suchawitchbitch
Franci :
ONLY $75 per victim is wild 😭
2026-11-13 03:37:21
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rutabagaslim
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
Rhabdo Barbie :
The Dear America book Hear My Sorrow taught me about this
2026-11-12 23:59:30
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kaidialeigh
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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liesherecharmed
Colleen :
This is the epitome of “Don’t worry, it gets worse.”
2026-11-13 00:00:14
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megmeggmegg
Meg 🩵 :
I still bring this up every time someone says unions are bad
2026-11-13 00:40:57
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lukewarmbutternoodles
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
shasta794 :
This makes me so mad
2026-11-13 04:57:24
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extinctbeipiaosaurus
ExtinctBeipiaosaurus :
Ashes of Roses is a good book about this.
2026-11-12 23:36:27
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chrystinewitha.y
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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luannegoldman
Luanne Goldman :
Wow, just horrifying for these victims.
2026-11-13 01:21:10
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wtghywnuwnu
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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chaoticizz
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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monstarrmeg
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
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
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
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_freeman
Lizzy l 🕵️ :
First time I hear about this! It’s so sad! 😭
2026-11-13 02:09:54
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sharonbrownarnp
Sharon from Anacortes :
Nightmare.
2026-11-12 23:31:21
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