Edvige Giunta (Editor)
Edvige Giunta is a professor of English at New Jersey City
University. She is the author of Writing with an Accent:
Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and co-editor of
five anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds and
Embroidered Stories. Born in Sicily, she first became
interested in the Triangle fire as a young activist. She has
trained scores of students in the art of memoir and created the
first course devoted to the Triangle fire.
Mary Anne Trasciatti (Editor)
Mary Anne Trasciatti is President of the Remember the
Triangle Fire Coalition. The daughter and granddaughter of garment
workers, she has devoted the past twelve years of her life to
ensuring the creation of a Triangle Fire Memorial. She is a
professor of Rhetoric and Director of Labor Studies program at
Hofstra University in Long Island. She is co-editor of the
forthcoming Where are the Workers? Labor's Stories at Museums
and Historic Sites.
This work brings labor's history to life with stories and voices
that have echoed down through generations. Apropos in these times
as we are reminded of the horror of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
that fueled union organizing and union demands for enforceable
occupational safety standards. As we learned then and painfully
know now, workplace safety doesn't just happen. The essays create a
rich, unique view of our past while calling us to stand in
solidarity today. -- Sara Nelson, International President of the
Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO
This deeply moving and poignant anthology reminds us that the past is not over. By feeling the truth of the Triangle Fire-the trauma, the loss, and the fury-each essay invites us to remember the beauty of workers and organizers then and today who fight for a world where the wellbeing of workers is not sacrificed for capitalist greed.
-- Jennifer Guglielmo, Associate Professor of History, Smith College, author of Living the Revolution, and co-director, "Putting History in Domestic Workers' Hands"![]() |
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