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100 1 _aTraven, B.,
_d1882-1969
245 1 4 _aDer Wobbly
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBerlin: Buchmeister, 1926
653 _aAmericans -- Mexico -- Fiction
653 _aMigrant labor -- Fiction
653 _aMexico -- History -- 1910-1946 -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006691650?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=traven%20&sort=yearup&ft=
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76111
999 _c116836
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