Abstract
"The decade of the nineties is the watershed of American history," wrote Henry Steele Commager in The American Mind. The case of Tampa, Florida, in this period reinforces Commager’s suggestive thesis that the ten years before the beginning of the twentieth century ushered in modern values accompanied by a profound population change, economic transformation, and urban problems. War, immigration, urbanization, racial turmoil, labor strife, and industrialization— crises of the nineties— helped forge the transformation of Tampa during this era which resulted in the 1899 “Huelga de la Pesa,” (the Weight Strike) and its aftermath.
Recommended Citation
Mormino, Gary R.
(1981)
"Tampa and the New Urban South: The Weight Strike of 1899,"
Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 60:
No.
3, Article 5.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol60/iss3/5
