Timeline
1911- Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory kills 146 workers; Factory Investigating Commission is formed.
1912- WTUL(Women's Trade Union League) is active in the investigation of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, the Triangle Factory owners, are acquitted of any wrongdoing.
1913- The fifty-four-hour workweek becomes law in New York State; On March 11, Harris and Blanck settle with the twenty-three families who sued them. The two men pay damages of seventy-five dollars to each family.
1914- Thirty-six new laws are passed by this time, including a women's minimum wage.
1935- Congress passes the Wagner Act of 1935, which creates the National Labor Relations Board.
1938- Life magazine declares the war against sweatshops has been won.
1950- WTUL dissolves.
1960s- Sweatshops begin to reappear.
1970- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is created.
1991- Twenty-five workers die in a North Carolina chicken processing plant that is locked and has no fire alarms or sprinklers; In Thailand, 188 workers die in a fire, trapped behind doors.
1993- Asch Building becomes a National Historic Landmark.
1995- ILGWU merges with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union to become the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile (UNITE).
1996- President Clinton forms the White House Apparel Industry Partnership.
1997- National Labor Committee reveals that a line of clothing endorsed by Katie Lee Gifford was made in sweatshops in Honduras.
2001- In January, a fire in a Manhattan building housing eight sweatshops kills a garment worker and injuries several others; Rose Freedman, the last survivor of the Triangle fire dies in February; A new coalition to fight sweatshops is formed in August.
2002- Commemoration to mark the ninety-first anniversary of the Triangle fire.
1912- WTUL(Women's Trade Union League) is active in the investigation of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, the Triangle Factory owners, are acquitted of any wrongdoing.
1913- The fifty-four-hour workweek becomes law in New York State; On March 11, Harris and Blanck settle with the twenty-three families who sued them. The two men pay damages of seventy-five dollars to each family.
1914- Thirty-six new laws are passed by this time, including a women's minimum wage.
1935- Congress passes the Wagner Act of 1935, which creates the National Labor Relations Board.
1938- Life magazine declares the war against sweatshops has been won.
1950- WTUL dissolves.
1960s- Sweatshops begin to reappear.
1970- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is created.
1991- Twenty-five workers die in a North Carolina chicken processing plant that is locked and has no fire alarms or sprinklers; In Thailand, 188 workers die in a fire, trapped behind doors.
1993- Asch Building becomes a National Historic Landmark.
1995- ILGWU merges with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union to become the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile (UNITE).
1996- President Clinton forms the White House Apparel Industry Partnership.
1997- National Labor Committee reveals that a line of clothing endorsed by Katie Lee Gifford was made in sweatshops in Honduras.
2001- In January, a fire in a Manhattan building housing eight sweatshops kills a garment worker and injuries several others; Rose Freedman, the last survivor of the Triangle fire dies in February; A new coalition to fight sweatshops is formed in August.
2002- Commemoration to mark the ninety-first anniversary of the Triangle fire.