It was the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York's Greenwich Village that took the lives of 146 mostly young immigrant women and changed the course of history. (readme.readmedia.com)
There was the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh last April 24, the continuing labour unrest in nearby Cambodia, factory fires in Pakistan and a renewed focus on child labour in Uzbekistan's annual cotton harvest. (canadianbusiness.com)
A clear and incisive writer, Galea seems ever to be connecting things: linking handwashing to courage; or the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 to the ongoing civil war in Syria. (fortune.com)