Rosie's sister, Fredya, works for an unsafe factory in 1911 and tries her best to get the union organized so that it is safe enough for Rosie and others to work there, yet things do not happen quickly enough and a disaster finally occurs. Reprint.
Rosie dreams of quitting school to go to work in a factory despite older sister Freyda's complaints about the brutal, unsafe conditions at work, in a story set against the tragedy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire.