Explanation:
The factories also were unsanitary, or as a young striker explained, “unsanitary—that's the word that is generally used, but there ought to be a worse one used.” At the Triangle factory, women had to leave the building to use the bathroom, so management began locking the steel exit doors to prevent the “interruption of ...
When the fire broke out, the workers had trouble escaping because the fire exits had been locked by the owners, who feared the workers might steal cloth.
