The triangle shirtwaist fire was very hard to learn about. I know we have labor laws now and didn’t know what people had to go through get us where we are today. Near closing time on Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911, in New York City a fire broke out on the top floors of the Asch Building in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. One of the worst tragedies in American history it was know as the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. It was a disaster that took the lives of 146 young immigrant workers. This tragedy pointed out the negatives of sweatshop conditions of the industrialization era. It emphasized the worst part of its times the low wages, long hours, and unsanitary working conditions were what symbolized what sweatshops were all about. These conditions were appalling, and no person should ever be made to work in these conditions. The women had no way out due to them locking the doors so they wouldn’t take a break. That was so heart breaking to know, to imagine what those women have went through at the time break my heart. Some women wanted to make sure they didn’t burn alive and decide to jump out the window to preserve their body. The working condition for women was poor than the men back then. To tie into today era women usually are only offer a lower wage jobs instead a man.