See You in the Streets Art, Action, and Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
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| Author:
| Sergel, Ruth |
| Series title: | Humanities and Public Life Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60938-417-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.00 |
Book Description:
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2017 American Book Award Winner from the Before Columbus Foundation In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City took the lives of 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women and girls. Their deaths galvanized a movement for social and economic justice then, but today's laborers continue to battle dire working conditions. How can we bring the lessons of the Triangle fire back into practice today? For artist Ruth Sergel,...
More Description 2017 American Book Award Winner from the Before Columbus Foundation
In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City took the lives of 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women and girls. Their deaths galvanized a movement for social and economic justice then, but today's laborers continue to battle dire working conditions. How can we bring the lessons of the Triangle fire back into practice today? For artist Ruth Sergel, the answer was to fuse art, activism, and collective memory to create a large-scale public commemoration that invites broad participation and incites civic engagement. See You in the Streets showcases her work.