Warm-UpThursday 5/3

• Pick up a sheet from the center desk and wait for instructions from Mr. Marley.

Tenement Life• The Over-

Crowding of the Cities

• Poor Living Conditions

• Unsanitary Conditions

Social Reform #3

Airshaft of a dumbbell tenement, New York City, taken from the roof, c. 1900.

Two officials of the New York City Tenement House Department inspect a cluttered basement living room, ca. 1900. 196-GS-32.

Social Reform #4Unsafe Working Conditions/Child Labor

– Fewer Hours

– Higher Wages

– Safer Factories

– Unions

Mar. 25, 1911 • The Triangle

Shirtwaist Factory operated on the top 3 floors of the 10 story Asche Building in New York City

• Notice that the tallest ladders owned by the fire dept. only reach the 6th floor

• In 1911, Unsafe working

conditions lead to a deadly fire

• Rather than burn alive in the swift moving fire, many women jump from windows

• This is actually a photo of the building after the fire! Note how there is very little damage on the outside of the building

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Eight months after the fire, a jury acquitted the factory owners, of any wrong doing.

• Twenty-three individual civil suits were brought against the owners of the Asch building. On March 11, 1913, three years after the fire, the owners settled. They paid 75 dollars per life lost.

• This tragedy led to a push for comprehensive safety and workers compensation laws.

Child labor photos