Sentences with phrase «factory fire»

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.

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.

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.

Mayor de Blasio's great - aunt pled guilty to «having an inadequate fire alarm apparatus,» four years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 garment workers less than a mile («just a short walk») south of the «Misses Briganti» home / «factory at 205 East Seventeenth Street.»

... What does Junior Agent Reyes know about a 20 year old factory fire that he's not saying?

At the International Tribunal on Workers» Human Rights, held at the Peoples Summit on APEC in Vancouver in November 1997, a young researcher from Hong Kong testified about the Zhili toy factory fire which killed 87 workers and injured 47 in 1993.

Jaguar revealed Tuesday that it will build nine new XKSS's that were destroyed in the famous Browns Lane Factory fire.

The tragic loss of more than 140 lives in a New York tenement factory fire forges collaboration among Tammany politicians, suffragettes, and labor reformers.

The consequences of such dire and unregulated labor became clear on March 25, 1911 in one of the country's most devastating industrial disasters, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory fire.

What does Junior Agent Reyes know about the pillow factory fire?

Lead trial counsel successfully defending one of the world's leading manufacturers of fire protection systems in some 20 claims and cross-claims resulting from a large factory fire, including a product liability / environmental class action claiming C$ 80 - million in damages

Earned «Silver Grade» Award for act of bravery during local factory fire, where 150 workers were saved from any life - threatening injuries

In one fifth - grade classroom, teacher Rivky Fisch led her students in a discussion about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 as a part of a unit on immigration.

... What does Junior Agent Reyes know about a 20 year old factory fire that he's not saying?

Fifth - grade girls at Tiferes Bnos share ideas with one another after a lesson on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911.

Employees received bonuses last Christmas as well, despite the factory fire.

This Mountain View, California, startup tracks news and social media to monitor a customer's supply chain and alerts it of potential hazards, like a storm or factory fire.

A lot of people were hit hard by the images of the Rana Plaza factory that collapsed in Bangladesh last year and the news of the factory fires that came before that.

Last week, I was devastated to hear that more than 300 workers were killed when a factory collapsed in Bangladesh, just as I was devastated when more than 100 workers were killed in a factory fire last year.

Five fire engines were already deployed at a factory fire in Birkenhead which meant that an adequate safe response couldn't reach them in time.

A century after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, politicians and labor leaders gathered to remember the dead.

At 11:30 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James, Brewer and others attend a ceremony commemorating the 106th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Washington Place and Greene Street, Manhattan.

These two were among 146 workers, mostly Italian and Jewish young women, who perished in a factory fire on the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street - an event that became a flashpoint in the Progressive Era fight for workers» rights and an ongoing symbol of such efforts.

All were affixed to wooden poles and branded with the name and age of a victim of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which occurred at the site 104 years ago.

Members of Ladder 20 / Engine 13 in Nolita raised their firetruck's ladders to the eighth floor, where the factory fire began its fatal path.

Then it was the nine XKSS road cars, derived from D - type racers, that burned in a factory fire while under construction.

Rogue sales up were up 44 % in 2015, and Nissan has factories fired up in the U.S., Japan and Korea to meet the demand.

The British automaker will produce nine copies of the XKSS with the intention of replacing nine original D - Type chassis that were destined to become XKSS road cars, but were lost in a factory fire before their conversions were complete.

Though I suspect readers are probably most familiar with Katharine Weber's novel about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, my favorite of hers is the darkly hilarious and oddball True Confections, starring Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky.

What happened during the night of the factory fire?

Marrin presents an exemplary, accessible overview of labor history in this detailed account of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 workers died — most of them immigrant women between the ages of 14 and 23.

W.J. Kennedy photographed images of Warhol on the Factory fire - escape with his famous self portrait, showing the first transparent Marilyn silkscreen and frolicking with artist Taylor Mead.

Also on view at the Grey Art Gallery, from January 11 to March 26, and from April 12 to July 9, 2011, is Art / Memory / Place: Commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, an exhibition tracing 100 years of the fire's memorializations.

We'll tut - tut about the factory fires, the building collapses, the fainting epidemics, and the deaths we hear about, of course.

Before that, a factory fire kills 112.

We represented the leading domestic insurance company in connection with a complex insurance claim raised by an insured person by reason of a factory fire accident.