In the early 1900’s the workplace was not as safe as it is today. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire helped to create laws for a better workplace to keep employees safer. This accident was portrayed in a movie called The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979), a book called Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix, and on a primary text called My First Job by Rose Cohen. Although the idea is the same the different forms had some minor differences. As previously mentioned, in the historic fiction book Uprising, the author took us through the lives of 2 young girls trying to brave it out in the land of opportunities, America. Both of the girls, Bella & Yetta work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, with harsh sweatshop like conditions. When one day Bella and Yetta become part of a strike for equality for the employees, and for a better workplace. After protesting for months the girls go back to their jobs, but there is a catch, only some of their requests were granted. They were promised better working conditions but not a closed shop. Soon after returning to their jobs, the Triangle Factory owners decided to go back to the original conditions. One day someone was smoking a cigarette …show more content…
The movie took us through the lives of four young immigrant women who work in an overcrowded shirtwaist sweatshop. When you watch the movie you'll experience the dreams and passions of these young girls and the events that led up to one of the most tragic fires in American history, where 146 people, mostly woman lost their lives. Some jumping out of windows to their doom. Whereas in the other two accounts they talked about the fire, in My First Job she talked only about her firsthand account of the bad conditions in the shop as a young worker. As the other two pieces of writing were fictional accounts this is a true story about her life as a young woman in a sweatshop with awful