In 1901, a New York cloak maker made an average of nine dollars a week for a six-day working week, fourteen to fifteen hours a day. Most of these garment workers, worked in tenements, which were vulnerable to fires and diseases, such as smallpox, and tuberculosis (Levine p. 138). It was not until 1911 that sweatshops started to be made public...
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138). It was not until 1911 that sweatshops started to be made public. In March 25, 1911, a fire broke out in a New York factory that claimed 146 garment workers' lives, 125 of these workers were girls who either died in the fire or jumped from the ten-story building. The building only had one emergency exist and the walls in the factory were fire proof...
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