03077cam a22003613u 4500 75795 UtSlPG 20260610134744.0 m cr n 260607r20251925utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG de iso639-1 PT Traven, B., 1882-1969 Die Baumwollpflücker Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cotton-Pickers Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Baumwollpfl%C3%BCcker Release date is 2025-04-05 Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. "Die Baumwollpflücker: Als Fortsetzungsroman im »Vorwärts«" by B. Traven is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book offers an unvarnished look into the lives of the Mexican farm laborers—mostly Indigenous and working-class people—who toil to provide raw cotton to the global textile industry. Eschewing sentimentality and romance, it centers instead on the daily challenges, camaraderie, and economic struggles of these workers, presenting the collective as the true protagonist. The story is rooted in the author’s lived experiences and informed by a deep familiarity with poverty and exploitation. The opening of the novel frames the harsh realities endured by cotton pickers in Mexico, contrasting their plight with that of both European and modern textile workers. The narrator, Gerard Gale, joins a diverse group of impoverished men—Mexicans, an American, two Black men, and a Chinese laborer—each traveling to a cotton farm to find work under the gringo Mr. Shine. Their journey, described with dry humor and vivid detail, is grueling, marked by exhaustion, lack of water, and improvised solidarity. Once at the farm, the group contends with meager wages, long hours, and minimal nourishment, while small entrepreneurial acts (such as selling eggs) become significant in their micro-economy. The narrative provides both an immersive slice-of-life account and sharp social commentary, quickly immersing the reader into the world of the dispossessed—where survival is a daily struggle, hierarchy is omnipresent, and solidarity is sometimes all that remains. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Berlin: Vorwärts-Verlag G. m. b. H., 1925 Americans -- Mexico -- Fiction Migrant labor -- Fiction Mexico -- History -- 1910-1946 -- Fiction https://www.fes.de/bibliothek/vorwaerts-blog/vorwaerts-digitalisierung https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75795 116520 116520