n 1902, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was located on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the Asch building in Greenwich Village, New York City. The company manufactured women’s blouses and employed approximately 500 employees. The workers were primarily young Jewish and Italian immigrant women and girls, some in their early teen years. The factory owners were known for exploiting their workers. They required workers to labor six days a week for low wages and in an unsafe building. They oppressively watched workers and locked factory doors to keep union organizers out. Some workers were sexually harassed and threatened by management. In November 1909, the workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, along with workers of the Leiserson and the Rosen Brothers factories, went on strike for better wages and working conditions, repair of building hazards, and unionization. The strike went on for nearly four months. Leiserson and Rosen Brothers reached an agreement with their workers, but Triangle owners refused to allow unionization. Triangle workers did get adjusted hours and slight wage increases, but they returned to work with no union representation and the same deathtrap safety hazards in the factory. Two years later, a fire at the Triangle factory occurred.