Out of the Flames, From The Ashes: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire & Its Legacy
Printer-friendly version Date of publication: March 8, 2011
Source: WBAI, New York
Tune into our tapestry of archival sound, re-enactments – a docudrama of the “flowering girls” who lost their lives in the Triangle Fire, on this hundredth anniversary, of one of the most important events in the history of the labor movement. Threaded through the sound tapestry are the haunting voices from the fire intermingled with the poetry and songs that arose in the wake of the tragedy.
Another thread of the tapestry are the voices of scholar/activists who deliberate on the legacy of Triangle for today - to organize and unionize, to regulate the workplace and create a safe, decent life for working people, to attend to the problems today sadly echoing the conditions at the time of the Triangle Fire. This is a drama of the dilemmas faced by working women, their pathos, and the importance of the fire, in the annals of workers’ history - “not to mourn, but to organize”. An International Working Women’s Day Special by Mimi Rosenberg...
