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Tag: Sweatshops

The global sweatshop economy, a century after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

May 6, 2014 Renee Shur Business, Economy Leave a comment

The date was March 25, 1911. As employees were getting ready to leave work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Lower Manhattan, a fire

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