Discuss the events that led to the Triangle fire of 1911, it’s aftermath, and how it forced American business, government, and society as a whole to pay greater attention to the conditions workers were facing. Are we still facing the same concerns that workers in 1911 were fighting to reform? Can society have capitalism without having to accept the exploitative conditions which sometimes spring from it?

Discuss the events that led to the Triangle fire of 1911, it’s aftermath, and how it forced American business, government, and society as a whole to pay greater attention to the conditions workers were facing. Are we still facing the same concerns that workers in 1911 were fighting to reform? Can society have capitalism without having to accept the exploitative conditions which sometimes spring from it?