Triangle Fire the Protocols of Peace & Industrial Democracy

Challenges our notion of the connections between labour, business, and the state.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Laboring DemocracyPart I. Private Protocolism: Industrial Democracy in New York's Ladies' Garment Industry1. Workers Organizing Industry: The New York City Garment Strikes of 1909 and 19102. The Making of Industrial Democracy in the Ladies' Garment Industry: The Creation of the Protocols of Peace3. The Shifting Ground of Protocolism: Struggling for the Soul of Industrial DemocracyPart II. Public Protocolism: The Triangle Fire and the Transformation of Industrial Democracy4. "The Burning Building at 23 Washington Place": The Triangle Fire and the Transformation of Industrial Democracy5. Politics: Setting the Stage for Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York6. The Politics of Administrative Reform: The Factory Investigating Commission, 1911-19137. Industrial Democracy Meets the Welfare State in Progressive Era New YorkConclusion The Historical Legacy of Industrial Democracy: From Protocolism to the New DealNotesBibliographyIndex