DOC 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Fire Hose, Fire Escape
17 Feb 2017
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Exit too narrow to let more than one girl through. Their health and safety are less important than fabric. Emergency stairs are too short to reach the ground. Gained insurance money for loss of property. Life expectancy of a farmworker is 47 years. Not allowed to vote for a union to fight for these rights. Easily replaced by bringing immigrants over the border. Injunction passed that they are not allowed to strike. Always won on appeal because it violates the constitution. But by then, the moment has passed. The system prioritizes the employer over the employee. Collaborated with cesar chavez and the ufw on the delano. Head of awoc when filipino workers voted to strike in delano in 1965 the agricultural workers organizing committee. Often left out of the history of the farmworkers movement. Master narratives also exist in counter-hegemonic movements.
