Return of the Sweatshop

Every year since 1911, union members have assembled in front of a building on Washington Place and Greene Street in New York City on March 25. The building is cloaked in black. A fire engine ladder reaches toward the eighth floor in memory of the women who were trapped there when the Triangle Shirt Waist fire exploded seventy-seven years ago. Today, just blocks away — and, in fact, throughout New York City — sweatshops with similar conditions abound. In the words of one union organizer, a...