Industrial Valley (Literature of American Labor)
"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."—Lewis Gannett,New York Herald Tribune"Industrial Valleyis 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."—Malcolm Cowley,New Republic'This 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."—Albert Maltz,New Masses"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