 International Ladies’ Garments Workers’ Union › Negotiated a Bargain  National Historic Landmark  500 Workers  Average Wage = $6 per week  1909 – Uprising of 20k (Strike)

 Worst Disaster  150 deaths  Mar. 25, 1911  Cause Unknown  Tried to jump

Remnants of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

 Wrote The Jungle › Published in 1906 › Depicts poverty  Socialist  Muckraker  Food Safety = Primary Issue  Meat Inspection Act  Pure Food and Drug Act  (FDA)

Tenements were terrible structures that no one would want to live in today. Because of the hazard they posed to their occupants, they led to laws that eventually made these buildings illegal.