
Tampa WPA Office Papers
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Publisher
Federal Writers' Project of Florida
Publication Date
January 1935
Abstract
Cortina Pinera's story of how he came to Tampa from Cuba as a teenager and worked in a cafe and as a reader in a cigar factory. During the Depression, he lost his cafe job, then became totally unemployed when cigar factory owners abolished the position of readers in the factories. Cortina Pinera laments the loss of the readers, and describes his life as an unemployed worker and recipient of government relief. The autobiography is followed by comments from Mrs. Jose Quintana, a supervisor at the Emergency Relief Council of Hillsborough County, and author Manuel Marrero.
Keywords
Working class, Florida, Tampa, Unemployment
Description
11 p.
Subject: topical
Working class; Unemployment
Subject: geographic
Florida; Tampa; Florida; Tampa
Genre
text
Holding Location
University of South Florida USF
Identifier
W27-00834
Recommended Citation
Cortina Pinera, Gerardo; Marrero, Manuel; and Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Florida, "Autobiography of a person who insisted on writing one" (1935). Tampa WPA Office Papers. 28.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/28
