Summary Of Out Of Sight By Erik Loomis

In the book, ‘Out of Sight’ by Erik Loomis, Mr. Loomis talks about environmental movements and labor movements in a working environment and the unfairness that was present before such movements were introduced.
In the introduction of ‘Out of Sight’, the author, Erik Loomis talks about how the Triangle Shirtwaist Company burned down in New York City on March 25, 1911. At this time there were 10 floors in the building with telephones on each floor except for the ninth. Now this certain company, Blanck and Harris, instead of making clothes, took outlines from other, more popular companies and created clothes that followed that outline. Their workers were mostly woman and mostly Italian and Jewish immigrants. On the afternoon of March 25, 1911,
a fire started on the eight floor. When the fire was discovered the workers called up to the tenth floor to the bosses but they were unable to call up to the ninth floor because the ninth floor had no phone (pg 2 sent 5). Due to these circumstances, the people on the ninth floor were unable to escape because they had no time and no warning. Some jumped to their deaths to avoid a painful burning death while others could not muster the courage and were burned to death.