Google Books

The Factory Investigating Commission’s reports on their findings are publicly available and provide insight into its work to find solutions that protect workers in the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

Read the Second Report

Read the Third Report

Read the Fourth Report

Historical Society of the New York Courts

We’ve prepared an article to give you an overview of the legal developments that resulted from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire tragedy. It surveys the trials (both criminal and civil) that resulted from the fire, the labor reform legislation that was enacted in New York in the years following the fire, and the involvement of New Yorkers in the federal New Deal legislation of the 1930s.

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Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

This website contains the statement: for many New Dealers, March 25, 1911 was, as Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins recalled,” the day the New Deal began.” Throughout the 1930s, artists, labor leaders, and reformers continued to look to the tragedy as a touchstone for the continuing need to agitate for legislation concerning work conditions and to press for the rights of all workers. You will find a photograph of the mural painted by Ernest Fiene in the auditorium of the High School of Fashion and Industry depicting the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the workers’ rights movement, as well as many photographs of the fire and its aftermath.

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