Option A- The Triangle Fire Sweatshops have been around for many centuries and are still presenttoday. Large companies in the garment industry are always looking for the cheapest way out by hiring desperate workers, paying them below minimum wage,and making them work excessive hours. According to the Department of Labour if a workplace violates two or more of the basic labour laws such as minimum wage, fire safety, childlabour, or overtime they are considered a sweatshop. Employees that work at these sweatshops file numerous complaints such as no benefits, non-payment of wages, forced overtime, sexual harassment, verbal abuse, illegal firings and many more horrible acts that are enforced by owners. Many of these employees are women who are denied maternity leave and eventually get fired. These owners would make them take birth control pills to avoid pregnancy and even go as far as forcing themto have an abortion. Even today, companies in the U.S are still operating sweatshops due to people that are in desperate need of employment and illegal immigrants who are willing to take this abuse in order to avoid any relationship with government agencies. “Recent studies conducted by the U.S. Department of Laborfound that 67% of Los Angeles garment factories and 63% of New York garment factories violate minimum wage and overtime laws. Ninety-eight percent of Los Angeles garment factories have workplace health and safety problems serious enough to lead to severe injuries or death.”(Given, 1997) A major tragedy that took place in New York on Saturday, March 25, 1911 hada major impact on today’s working conditions. It was the fire at the Triangle Waist Company, which took the lives of 146 young immigrant workers. The Triangle Waist Company is a classic example of a sweatshop in which all these poor conditions discussed earlier were clearly present and the helpless workers were unable to confront the company due to the risk of termination. It was on the afternoon of...