She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life to worker safety. By Douglas Martin To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of ...

To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime. He wanted to do something about it. By Maria Cramer Responses to an essay about Nazi objects from ...

I wonder what my Great Aunt Fannie would think of today’s American workplace, with a percolating revival of its labor movement. On March 25, 1911, Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of my ...

I wonder what my Great Aunt Fannie would think of today’s American workplace, with a percolating revival of its labor movement. Jonathan Lansner’s great aunt Fannie died in the the Triangle Fire in ...

When Starbucks barista Megan DiMotta started organizing a union at her store, she had plenty of present-day grievances to discuss, such as inadequate wages and unsafe working conditions during the ...