How are suffrage, labor rights, and the equal rights amendment related?
The Equal Rights Amendment was first drafted in 1923 by two leaders of the women’s suffrage movement, Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. Women suffrage ties into the labor rights because women were forced to worked long hours with no break. The triange tshirt fire 125 women died from either jumping out the window when the fire errupted or smoke inhalation. Suffrage, labor rights and the equal rights amment are related because they all have the same end goal which is the rights of the people and for all to be teated equally.
How/why are labor rights also issues of gender justice?
Labor rights are also a justice issue because of the oppurtunties and rights that were given to men and not women. During the triangle shirtwaist factory fire there were any labor rights in place for these women. The women were forced to work 11- 12 hours a day with no break. They had only two exist and one was locked so the women couldnt take a break. They werent maintain the building ao the one fire escae was flimsy and didnt hep during the fire, only one out for elevators worked.
How do you see these historical issues enacted in today’s society?
The fire that happen at the triange shirtwaist factory enact today societ because it created the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. This was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first U.S. unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. New York passed the Sullivan-Hoey Fire Prevention Law in response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. It required factory owners to install sprinkler systems, established the New York City Fire Prevention Bureau, and expanded the powers of the fire commissioner.
