The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the. Bella, newly arrived from Italy, gets a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Lees Uprising door Margaret Peterson Haddix verkrijgbaar bij Rakuten Kobo.

Bella tells her story to her two daughters, Yetta and Jane. Three girls become unlikely friends during troubled times in early 1900s New York City. In the end, only Bella survives, by going onto the roof and climbing to a nearby building and out their exit. Blanck (one of the owners), learns of the workers and becomes involved with their cause.īella and Yetta are at work and Jane is visiting the factory on March 25, 1911, when a spark ignites piles of cloth, leading to one of the worst workplace disasters in history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Although it begins in a didactic tone, this historical novel about New York Citys Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Jane, a runaway daughter of a wealthy businessman, who later works as a governess for Mr. S&S, 16.99 (346pp) ISBN 978-1-4169-1171-5. When factory conditions worsen, workers rise up in a strike. Yetta, a coworker from Russia, has been crusading for a trade union. There, along with 500 other immigrants, she works long hours at a grueling job under terrible conditions. Summary īella, newly arrived in New York City from Calia, Italy, starts work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. According to Maureen Paschal of The Washington Post, it 'helps reinforce how immigrants have often struggled with hardship and unfairness'. The novel is a fictionalized account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Uprising is a young-adult novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007.

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix