Relief from Relief: The Tampa Sewing-Room Strike of 1937 and the Right to Welfare.

The article discusses a sit-down strike among women workers in a sewing room in Tampa, Florida in 1937. Although brief, the labor protest is seen as significant because the strikers were women, mostly minorities, and they were relief workers who made clothes, and whose jobs had been created by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal program. Thus, the event is seen as a significant blending of U.S. labor, race, and gender history. It is also discussed in the context of regional history, as Florida was just beginning to differentiate itself from the rest of the South.