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A review by aoosterwyk
Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin
5.0
This book was a fast read, probably because it was so interesting. The photographs fill about half of the space so it feels like watching a Ken Burns movie.
The best thing about this book is that it devotes the first half to setting up how such a tragedy could happen. Racism and politics in Europe and Russia are discussed to provide the motivation for the great migration of Jews and Italians to America.
Class relationships are explored and gender issues. Union politics and strikes are also explained with the effect of the fire ultimately responsible for many of the work/safety laws in use today. Overall, this book was terrifically readable and combined individual stories with the great movements of history in a way that will be understandable to middle grade and up. It is especially timely since the factory collapse and fires in Bangladesh textile factories.
The best thing about this book is that it devotes the first half to setting up how such a tragedy could happen. Racism and politics in Europe and Russia are discussed to provide the motivation for the great migration of Jews and Italians to America.
Class relationships are explored and gender issues. Union politics and strikes are also explained with the effect of the fire ultimately responsible for many of the work/safety laws in use today. Overall, this book was terrifically readable and combined individual stories with the great movements of history in a way that will be understandable to middle grade and up. It is especially timely since the factory collapse and fires in Bangladesh textile factories.