Project Gutenberg 2025-05-18 Public domain in the USA. 187 Traven, B. 1882 1969 Feige, Hermann Albert Otto Max Wienecke, Albert Otto Max Marut, Ret Torsvan, Berick Traven Croves, Hal Der Wobbly $aBerlin :$bBuchmeister, $c1926. Later editions have title: Die Baumwollpflücker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cotton-Pickers https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Baumwollpfl%C3%BCcker Erstes Buch. Die Baumwollpflücker -- Zweites Buch. Der Wobbly. Jens 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. "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.) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006691650?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=traven%20&sort=yearup&ft= 20220101062928traven 1926 de Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. de Americans -- Mexico -- Fiction Migrant labor -- Fiction Mexico -- History -- 1910-1946 -- Fiction PT Text Category: Novels Category: German Literature 491882 2025-09-30T06:28:03.689791 text/html 465769 2025-05-18T11:22:38 text/html 606935 2025-09-30T06:28:11.528743 application/epub+zip 605194 2025-09-30T06:28:05.218825 application/epub+zip 412180 2025-09-30T06:28:04.422813 application/epub+zip 1462558 2025-09-30T06:28:16.118751 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1414763 2025-09-30T06:28:10.682797 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 446619 2025-09-30T06:28:02.842799 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 426808 2025-05-18T11:22:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17324 2025-09-30T06:28:16.258743 application/rdf+xml 17675 2025-09-30T06:28:04.617832 image/jpeg 2408 2025-09-30T06:28:04.518768 image/jpeg 895110 2025-09-30T06:28:03.758782 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 en.wikipedia de.wikipedia