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_aTraven, B., _d1882-1969 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aDer Wobbly |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aLater editions have title: Die Baumwollpflücker | ||
| 500 | _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cotton-Pickers | ||
| 500 | _aWikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Baumwollpfl%C3%BCcker | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-05-18 | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aErstes Buch. Die Baumwollpflücker -- Zweites Buch. Der Wobbly. | |
| 508 | _aJens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. | ||
| 520 | _a"Der Wobbly" by B. Traven is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows the itinerant worker Gerard Gale as he drifts into a multinational crew of down-and-out laborers picking cotton on a remote Mexican farm. Through heat, hunger, and exploitation, the story zeroes in on the economics of low-wage labor and the first sparks of worker solidarity that push the crew toward collective action. The opening of the novel begins with a cotton-pickers’ song and a chance gathering at a desolate station, where Gale falls in with Antonio, Gonzalo, Sam Woe, and two Black Americans, Charley and Abraham, all bound for Mr. Shine’s plantation. After a grueling trek through bush and thirst, they reach the farm, sleep in a bare shack, and toil for meager piece-rates under swarms of insects and a chronic water shortage. Daily life is sketched in vivid detail—from cooking over campfires to Abraham’s small-time egg enterprise that both sustains and indebts the group—until the men calculate they cannot survive on the pay. They stage a brief, disciplined work stoppage; the boss relents, raises the rate (with back pay), and Gale, singled out as the lone white worker, receives a bit more. Soon after, an oil-camp manager needs a temporary driller, and Gale seizes the chance to leave the fields for steadier food, shelter, and work, closing the opening on a pivot from plantation labor to the oil frontier. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cBerlin: Buchmeister, 1926 |
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| 653 | _aAmericans -- Mexico -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMigrant labor -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMexico -- History -- 1910-1946 -- Fiction | ||
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