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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Revisited (20th in series)

Many of the egregious problems leading to the 1911 fire in New York have been exported. There was an all too similar fire in Bangladesh a century later in 2012.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/11/26/1164782/-The-perpetual-infancy-of-humankind-Echoes-of-the-Triangle-2012

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How Regulation Came to Be: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (19th in series)

Just east of Washington Square Park in downtown Manhattan is the building that once housed the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. It’s now part of NYU. All that remains is a plaque.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/3/21/846135/-How-regulation-came-to-be:-The-Triangle-Shirtwaist-Fire

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