Project Gutenberg 2025-04-05 Public domain in the USA. 189 Traven, B. 1882 1969 Feige, Hermann Albert Otto Max Wienecke, Albert Otto Max Marut, Ret Torsvan, Berick Traven Croves, Hal Die Baumwollpflücker : $b Als Fortsetzungsroman im »Vorwärts« (1925) $aBerlin :$bVorwärts-Verlag G. m. b. H., $c1925. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cotton-Pickers https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Baumwollpfl%C3%BCcker 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.) https://www.fes.de/bibliothek/vorwaerts-blog/vorwaerts-digitalisierung 20211024081322traven 1925 de Reading ease score: 81.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. de Americans -- Mexico -- Fiction Migrant labor -- Fiction Mexico -- History -- 1910-1946 -- Fiction PT Text Category: Novels Category: German Literature 205561 2025-06-30T05:07:38.830977 text/html 180135 2025-04-05T14:04:40 text/html 542235 2025-06-30T05:07:43.401941 application/epub+zip 541374 2025-06-30T05:07:39.908986 application/epub+zip 200757 2025-06-30T05:07:39.372957 application/epub+zip 692786 2025-06-30T05:07:46.046944 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 671564 2025-06-30T05:07:42.973946 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 178945 2025-06-30T05:07:38.248971 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 158994 2025-04-05T14:04:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17345 2025-06-30T05:07:46.180917 application/rdf+xml 13536 2025-06-30T05:07:39.543977 image/jpeg 2203 2025-06-30T05:07:39.457121 image/jpeg 556105 2025-06-30T05:07:38.854999 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia