AVOIDABLE DISASTERS TODAY IN HISTORY In one of the worst - TopicsExpress



          

AVOIDABLE DISASTERS TODAY IN HISTORY In one of the worst incidents in the city’s industrial history, a dropped match on a factory floor killed 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant women, on March 25, 1911. The brain swells with the searing images of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, an anniversary that a century on still demands grim attention. Wish that it were not so. The Triangle fire became a fast frame of reference for the Rana Plaza disaster, which claimed more than 1,100 lives and which approaches its inaugural anniversary April 24. thestar/news/insight/2014/03/24/disasters_a_century_apart_show_littles_changed_for_worlds_most_vulnerable_garment_workers.html
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:09:56 +0000

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