A year before the tragic 1911 Triangle Waist Company Fire in New York City, women staged the Chicago Garment Workers Strike against Hart, Schaffner, and Marx, which employed several thousand workers in dozens of clothing factories — sweatshops — around the city. Women unified across racial and ethnic boundaries to protest low wages and poor working conditions. The strike, which lasted from September 1910 to January 1911, ended when labor and management agreed on a deal to raise wages and meet health and safety standards. Read more Chicago and labor history in Tazia and Gemma (see NOVELS).
