In Dubious Battle
Novel centred on unionised labour, by John Steinbeck / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936. The central figure of the story is an activist attempting to organize abused laborers in order to gain fair wages and working conditions.
Author | John Steinbeck |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Covici-Friede |
Publication date | 1936 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 270 |
Preceded by | Tortilla Flat |
Followed by | Of Mice and Men |
Prior to publication, Steinbeck wrote in a letter:
This is the first time I have felt that I could take the time to write and also that I had anything to say to anything except my manuscript book. You remember that I had an idea that I was going to write the autobiography of a Communist ... There lay the trouble. I had planned to write a journalistic account of a strike. But as I thought of it as fiction the thing got bigger and bigger. It couldn't be that. I've been living with this thing for some time now. I don't know how much I have got over, but I have used a small strike in an orchard valley as the symbol of man's eternal, bitter warfare with himself.[1]