The Factory Girls: A Kaleidoscopic Account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Author: Seifert, Christine
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
7.7
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
52042
Points per Word
0.000173
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.051136
Description
This book examines the events leading up to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, including a close look at how fashion and the desire for consumer goods, driven in part by the excess of the Gilded Age, created an unsustainable culture of greed.