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Snapshot 7

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/01/849218750/workers-walk-off-jobs-demand-safer-working-conditions this photo is from an npr article about several company’s employees on strike, this one being from amazon, a company that has made grossly high profits on the backs of workers that have and continuously are abused,overworked and underpaid before and during a pandemic, while they and several child companies enjoy a relaxed and highly paid salary from the comfort of their homes

Snapshot 7:

Title: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, art by: John Sloan, https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire/SQH_2IoJMRF6Kg

 As a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, activists kept their memories alive by encouraging local and state officials to take action in the interest of building and worker safety. Three months later, Governor John Alden Dix of New York signed legislation enabling the Factory Investigating Committee, which led to the passage of eight further laws addressing fire safety, factory inspection, cleanliness, and women’s and children’s work rights. What was formerly a filthy and hazardous environment packed with dangerous equipment and, prior to the passage of child labor regulations, little children, American factories and offices are today significantly safer than they were only a century ago.