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The Cotton-Pickers
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Wikipedia article
'The Cotton-Pickers' is a 1926 novel by B. Traven.
Plot
Gale is an itinerant who works jobs as a cotton picker, baker, cowboy, and oil rigger. He participates in a number of successive, spontaneous strikes without organized unions. He thinks of Guatemala and Argentina often.
Publication
'Vorwrts', the Social Democratic Party of Germany's newspaper, published a serialized version of 'The Cotton-Pickers' as 'Die Baumwollpflcker' between June 21 and July 2, 1925. published a modified version as a full-length book, 'Der Wobbly' (The Wobbly). Traven was influenced by the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) in Mexico as he arrived in 1924.
Eleanor Brockett translated the book into English for Robert Hale in 1956.
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