Book Launch: The Hamlet Fire by Bryant Simon
September 7, 2017
- 6:30pm ET
Narberth Bookshop
221 Haverford Avenue,
Narberth PA
Temple University professor and historian Bryant Simon will discuss his new book, The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives, a vivid social autopsy of a fire that swept through the Imperial Food Product plant in the 1970s and shows how cheap labor, deregulation, and food came ignited tragedy.