Reread the selection from your textbook about women and workplace in the triangle fire. Then answer the question that follows incomplete sentences in the textile mills of New England and the tobacco factories of the south. Women formed the majority of workers. They continued to work long hours for low pay. Many labored under unsafe conditions. Then tragic event focused attention on the dangerous faced by women workers. The workday was just ending on a cool March day in 1911 when a fire broke out in the triangle shirt, waste factory a sweatshop in New York City within minutes the upper stories were a blaze hundreds of workers for the exit only to find them locked. The company had locked the doors to keep workers at their jobs nearly 150 people mostly young women lost their lives and the triangle fire. The deaths shocked the public as a result New York and other states approved new safety laws to help protect factory workers.
