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An obituary by Matt Schudel for the Washington Post. Margaux Fragoso, the author of a controversial memoir that provided an intimate and often disturbing look at her 15-year involvement with a pedophile starting when she was 7, died June 23 at a hospital in Mandeville, La. She was 38. The cause was ovarian cancer, said her…

Lessons of the past are also used to spur the struggle for safe conditions for workers today.

“Talking to the Girls,” a new anthology of essays on the disastrous 1911 fire that killed nearly 150 workers, uses the past as a window to the present.

In a book whose release is timed to coincide with the March 25 anniversary of the NYC blaze that killed 146 garment workers, Martin Abramowitz describes searching for painful truth

March 25 marks the 111th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 mostly Jewish and Italian immigrant garment workers in just 18 minutes.