The triangle shirtwaist factory fire exemplifies the problems of the industrial revolution because it is an example of lack of safety and labor laws within sweatshop-like working conditions that were common around the country. The lack of care and precaution showed by business owners and management is what lead to such dangerous and harmful working conditions for millions of working class Americans who had no choice but to rely on risky jobs like the women who worked in the triangle shirtwaist factory.
