Documentary Analysis

For this journal, you will watch a documentary on one of the most famous events of the Progressive Era, the Triangle Fire of 1911 .

Directions: Watch the documentary linked below and make a journal entry analyzing what you learned from the video and explain how this expands upon the information presented in other course materials (textbook, background information in this module, etc.) Your response should be at least 250 words in length. Provide specific details from the video (both parts 1 and 2) so that I know you watched it and did not just read a description of it or guess what it contained.

The Triangle Fire was the deadliest workplace disaster in New York History until the September 11th attacks of 2001. In 1911, 146 garment workers, 123 of them women, perished when a fire began in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of the Asch Building. This video is split up into two parts. The first part gives some background on working conditions and the earlier efforts by these employees to unionize. The second part addresses the fire itself:

video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVSVIYrj_uw
video 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V7yoe3cpHE