Por mil blusas al día

"For a Thousand Blouses a Day" recounts the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York in 1911, where a fire claimed the lives of 129 female workers. Sixty-two of them died jumping from the windows, desperately trying to escape being burned alive. Most were immigrants who had arrived on Ellis Island with their heads full of dreams. The author chooses a highly original point of view to narrate the story: that of a blouse displayed in the window of a shop across from the skyscraper, from where it observes everything. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was the worst workplace accident involving women of the time and one of the historical events that gave rise to the celebration of March 8th. The book not only addresses the fire but also recreates the birth of the women's struggle for labor rights; women who, in demonstrations, dared to ask not only for bread, but also for roses.