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HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture I. Rise of HomosexualityII. CraneOutline of Current Lecture I. Fire!II. What Caused the Deaths?III. The FalloutCurrent LectureI. Fire!a. Triangle Shirtwaist Firei. March 25, 1911 – Asch Building, New York Cityii. 9 floor, concrete and steel building, state of the art1. Owners boasted it was fireproof because it wasn’t made of wood2. However, it was a shirtwaist factory, so everything inside was quiteflammablea. Clothing, scraps, skin, hair, wooden tablesiii. Owners famous for having unsafe conditionsiv. Surprise to the entire nation due to the scale of the tragedyv. Employees were mostly immigrant womenvi. Staircases were only 3 ft. wide1. Maximize space on the floor for sewing machines, money-making2. Got jammed 3. 600 people worked in the Asch Buildingvii. Fire Escapes were made of inadequate materials1. Collapsed under the weight of the panicked workersviii. Elevator out of serviceix. 2nd door lockedx. 62 workers jumped out the windows1. None survived the 9-story fall2. Incident happened during rush hourxi. More than 140 deadxii. People said it changed everythingb. Expansion and Power of the American StateThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.i. 19th century – didn’t really interact with the federal government 1. Except Post Officea. Weak, remote, irrelevant2. 20th century – government shapes lives3. TSF drew attention  large-scale problems demanded large-scale solutions4. Face-to-face solutions inadequatea. Variety of answersb. Progressive Erac. Mass-migrationd. American expansion oversease. National efforts to conserve resourcesII. What Caused the Firea. Owners Max Blank and Isaac Harris put on trial i. Indicated for deaths 11 Apr 1911ii. Brought to trial Dec 1911b. Frederick Winslow Taylori. Engineerii. Guru on efficiencyiii. Associated with production, efficienciesiv. “Taylorism” – condensed, efficientv. Principles of Scientific Management, 19111. Conducted time efficiency status2. Optimal amount of break-time3. Profibility maximized, cost minimized4. Very dangerousc. Conditions made workplace very unsafei. Court didn’t say conditions weren’t the cause of the deathsii. Conditions invisible to courtiii. Accidents took place in places not widely seen1. Seen by few peopleiv. Court knew about conditions, but law of the time prevented the court from seeing evidencev. Took place in private space1. Accident had to be between employer/employee2. Unless willful, criminal, wrongdoingvi. Courts only interested in two things1. Last step in causal changea. Proximate cause2. Only interested in whether employer played direct/knowing/deliberate role in proximal cause3. Private spacevii. Harris and Blank1. Flammable material, fire hoses in bad condition2. Locked door – whole case boiled down to that a. Jury had doubtb. Did Harris and Blank know?i. They were acquitted3. Court couldn’t see bad work conditionsd. Public Disasteri. Morgue swamped1. Put coffins on piers for I.D.–ing victimse. Expansion of American Regulatory statei. NY State Factory Investigating Commission1. 36 statutes that governed workplace safetyii. 1912 NY Constitution made legal workers comp1. CA had one 19112. Child safety, min wage, max hours,


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