''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
''
Vorwärts'', the
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
Saskia Esken has been the ...
's newspaper, published a serialized version of ''The Cotton-Pickers'' as ''Die Baumwollpflücker'' 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
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in Chicago in 1905. The origin of the nickname "Wobblies" is uncertain. IWW ideology combines genera ...
) in Mexico as he arrived in 1924.
Eleanor Brockett translated the book into English for
Robert Hale in 1956.
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