During the early 1900s industrial fires or accidents were commonplace; the injuries and loss of life may have outraged some people, but like all tragedies the outrage would pass quickly and we would return to normality. One such tragedy occurred on Saturday, March 25, 1911, it was closing time at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and hundreds of employees were preparing to leave when a fire broke out on the eighth floor trapping Jewish and Italian immigrants, most of them young women. . One hundred and forty-six people died in a futile attempt to escape the burning ten-story building. During the day the main doors were kept closed and only one door was opened for the hundreds of employees to exit, one by one, while their belongings were searched for stolen goods. Blanck and Harris, owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, suffered no consequences regarding the unsafe work environment and deaths of their employees. David von Drehle, in his book Triangle, The Fire That Changed America, states that this particular fire changed the political and industrial landscape of the United States; was no longer ignored by the working masses nor was it quickly rejected by public opinion – public opinion consisted of a huge immigrant population from Europe, the “transfer of labor and intellectual power” that eventually led to the women's strike in garment industry and setting a precedent in New York (Triangle, 3, 4). Diverse groups such as wealthy and educated elite women, muckrakers, labor unions, and the political machines that controlled New York City neighborhoods pushed for political, economic, and legal changes in industrial systems – in a democratic social moment of reform – their they were like a very welcome rain... middle of paper... people from dangerous environments. The changes after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire involved 4 major groups and public voters. No group alone has had such far-reaching effects as the progressive, politically liberal, and socially democratic movement. Without all four groups putting pressure on the legal system, without the media exposing the flaws of the current industrial and political system along with the uprising that marks the beginning of women's suffrage, labor laws would not have undergone the radical changes that they are the backbone of modern labor laws. The fact that all doors must remain open and unlocked during business hours in 21st century America arose from the ashes of the fatal Triangle Shirtwaist fire. To the deceased, American manufacturing employees are grateful, even if they may not be fully informed about the origins of their current labor laws.