Description
Book SynopsisThis novel vividly portrays an industrial city crippled by the country's economic failures and also provides a stirring example of fiction predicated on social and political principles
Trade ReviewThis is reporting with a purpose; it is fact selected to provide illumination, not fact reported as a record of rainfall, and the result is brilliant history.
* New Masses *
Industrial Valley is perhaps the best American example of proletarian literature. Even though it is based completely on fact, I also offer it as one of our best collective novels.
* New Republic *
For sheer dramatic excitement, for effective organization as a story, there isn't one among all the strike novels to match this essentially true story.
* New York Herald Tribune *
Vividly portrays an industrial city crippled by the country's economic failures and also provides a stirring example of fiction predicated on social and political principles.
* Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Daniel Nelson
To Begin With
Book One: JANUARY 1, 1932, TO JUNE 16, 1933
Book Two: JUNE 26, 1933, TO FEBRUARY 14, 1936
Book Three: FEBRUARY 14, 1936, TO MARCH 21, 1936
And Three Years After
