In 1911 , negative public perceptions of sweatshops were galvanized by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City . The pivotal role of this time and place is chronicled at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum , part of the Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site . While trade unions , minimum wage laws , fire safety codes , and labour laws have made sweatshops ( in the original sense ) rarer in the developed world , they did not eliminate them , and the term is increasingly associated with factories in the developing world
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Sweatshop