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Almost 100 years later - and how much safer is working in NYC?
Submitted by Rob on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 08:48.Imagine this: 146 young immigrant workers killed in a blazing 10-storey factory in Manhattan - mostly seamstresses who burned or jumped to their deaths to avoid the flames (shown in this photo from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law).
It happened - 97 years ago this week - in the tragedy known as the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
