The Cotton-Pickers
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'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. Traven was influenced by the Wobblies in Mexico as he arrived in 1924.Eleanor Brockett translated the book into English for Robert Hale in 1956.