Let us remember the tragedy of the "Triangle" by David von Drehle

On the morning of March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the upper floors of the building that contained the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the garment district of Manhattan. Within minutes, the blaze engulfed the top three floors of the building. The workers, mostly young women who were Eastern European Jewish and Italian immigrants, were trapped in the inferno because their bosses had blocked the exits to prevent them from taking unscheduled breaks or pilfering fabric samples. As a result, 146 of them died, many leaping to their deaths from high windows rather than be burned alive. In Triangle: the Fire that Changed America, David von Drehle provides a riveting account of the tragedy and its aftermath, including the political and social reform movements it inspired.