to organizing for the Women's Trade Union League (Rose pp).
             In 1909, Schneiderman helped lead tens of thousands of young female
             garment workers to walk off their jobs in an industry-wide strike (Freeman
             Pp). Known as the "Uprising of the 30,000," this strike eventually led to
             the establishment of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
             (Frank Pp). The Triangle Shirt Waist Company was one of the first
             companies to be struck, however, its owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris,
             organized the larger manufacturers to resist the union, enabling them to
             get their employees back to work under a compromise that improved wages and
             shortened hours, however, did not recognize the union (Freeman Pp). Blanck
             and Harris's single-minded devotion to the bottom line, evident by their
             use of thugs to beat strikers, resulted in crowding workers into their shop
             and skimping on safety and fire prevention measures (Freeman Pp). The
             Triangle Shirt Waist Company was situated on the top three floors of a
             relatively new, ten story loft building and was New York's largest
             manufacturer of shirtwaists, the widely popular blouses that paved the way
             for the mass marketing of fashionable clothes (Freeman Pp). However, like
             other sweatshops, Triangle hired almost exclusively immigrant workers,
             primarily young Jewish and Italian women, forcing them to work long hours
             In spite of numerous industrial disasters, including mine cave-ins,
             ship explosions, refinery and factory fires, and building collapses that
             have marked U.S. industrial history, the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist
             Company on March 25, 1911 is often the only workplace accident that most
             people can name (Freeman Pp). On that afternoon there were 575 workers,
             mostly young Jewish and Italian women, averaging 19 years of age, who sat
             at sewing machines at long tables that went from one end of the floor to
             the other (Breslin Pp). There...