“When newspapers reported in 1991 that a fire in a Hamlet, North Carolina, chicken-processing plant had killed 25 workers who were trapped by locked doors, labor historians recalled the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City, in which 146 garment workers were killed. It was a tragedy that helped bring about modern worker-safety laws. […]
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A sign, a door, a connection to past tragedy
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged american heritage, hamlet chicken plant fire, hamlet nc, imperial foods, peter liebhold, smithsonian institution, steven lubar, triangle shirtwaist fire on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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