Fire in United States
Fire Definition
The common understanding of the word “fire” would never include heat, short of the degree of ignition, however produced. 30 111. App. 266. Thus neither artificial nor solar heat, 6 Taunt. 436; 2 Marsh. 130; nor lightning, nor an explosion of gunpowder or of firedanap, or of a steam-engine, nor the discharge of ordnance, nor a projectile from either a volcano or a gun, is “fire” within a fire policy, unless there be an actual setting on fire directly causing the injury insured against. 19 C. B. N. S. 133, 34 L. J. C. P. 301.
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The common understanding of the word “fire” would never include heat, short of the degree of ignition, however produced. 30 111. App. 266. Thus neither artificial nor solar heat, 6 Taunt. 436; 2 Marsh. 130; nor lightning, nor an explosion of gunpowder or of firedanap, or of a steam-engine, nor the discharge of ordnance, nor a projectile from either a volcano or a gun, is “fire” within a fire policy, unless there be an actual setting on fire directly causing the injury insured against. 19 C. B. N. S. 133, 34 L. J. C. P. 301.
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Resources of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
See Also
Workers’ Compensation.
Death System; Grief: Traumatic; Social Functions of Death
National Labor Relations Act ; New York City ; Progressive Movement ; Workers’ Compensation.
Industrial Revolution, Women in the Workplace, Working Conditions in Factories
Further Reading (Books)
New York State Factory Investigating Commission. Preliminary Report of the Factory Investigating Commission. Albany: The Argus Company, 1912.
Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz. Deadly Dust. Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Stein, Leon. The Triangle Fire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
ROBERT KASTENBAUM
Dubofsky, Melvyn. When Workers Organize. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1968.
Foner, Philip S. Women and the American Labor Movement. New York: Free Press, 1979.
Park, David W. “Compensation or Confiscation,” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000.
DavidPark
Further Reading (Articles)
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reference Library; January 1, 2007
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Idaho State Journal; April 2, 2011
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History; January 1, 2009
Proclamation 8639-100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents; March 24, 2011; Obama, Barack H
“THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE: ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER,” AT NYU OPEN HOUSE, THROUGH MAY 2011., States News Service; February 23, 2011
Triangle Shirtwaist fire: Why it inspires plays and poetry readings 100 years later.(USA)(Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, 1911), The Christian Science Monitor; March 25, 2011; Goodale, Gloria
Interview: David von Drehle discusses the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911 and how it caused major reforms in working conditions, NPR Morning Edition; September 1, 2003; BOB EDWARDS
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide: Major Events in Labor History and Their Impact; January 1, 2004
Interview: Dana Walden discusses her grandmother, Rose Freedman, who survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, NPR Weekly Edition; March 31, 2001; LAURIE HOWELL
Sweatshop Inferno; The Story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Italian America; January 1, 2004; Anonymous
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: 100 Years Later, Ambassador; October 1, 2011; Stovall, Steven Austin
100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE., States News Service; March 25, 2011
REPS. NADLER, PASCRELL AND KING HONOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST TRAGEDY INTRODUCE RESOLUTION ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEVASTATING FIRE THAT CATALYZED WORKER SAFETY MOVEMENT ACROSS THE NATION., States News Service; March 17, 2011
PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION–100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE., States News Service; March 24, 2011
US LABOR DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES MOBILE-OPTIMIZED WEBSITE TO COMMEMORATE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; March 22, 2011
US LABOR DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES MOBILE-OPTIMIZED WEBSITE TO COMMEMORATE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE MOBILE SITE FEATURES AUDIO TOUR AND BACKGROUND OF HISTORIC EVENT.(Website overview), States News Service; March 21, 2011
REPS. PASCRELL, NADLER AND KING HONOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST TRAGEDY INTRODUCE RESOLUTION ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEVASTATING FIRE THAT CATALYZED WORKER SAFETY MOVEMENT ACROSS THE NATION} {INSERT SECONDARY TITLE}., States News Service; March 17, 2011
Profile: The tragic 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, in which 146 young female workers lost their lives, NPR Weekly Edition; March 13, 1999
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NONFICTION; After the fire; An inferno at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. helped ignite reform.(ENTERTAINMENT), Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); September 7, 2003; Hoekstra, Joel
Us Labor Department Commemorates Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Mobile Site Features Audio Tour and Background of Historic Event, States News Service; March 23, 2012
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