{"product_id":"industrial-valley-paperback-softback-9780875461830","title":"Industrial Valley (Paperback \/ softback) 9780875461830","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIndustrial Valley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRuth McKenney (Author), Daniel Nelson (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780875461830\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 March 1992\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e408 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e (New Masses) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndustrial Valley\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e (New Republic) \u003cp\u003eFor sheer dramatic excitement, for effective organization as a story, there isn't one among all the strike novels to match this essentially true story.\u003c\/p\u003e (New York Herald Tribune) \u003cp\u003eVividly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e (Midwest Book Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth McKenney's compelling novel of class and industrial conflict in Akron, Ohio, first appeared in 1939 and was widely acclaimed. McKenney was a capable journalist who had spent a year and a half in Akron, the heart of the tire industry, a city that she said \"smells like a rubber band smoldering in an ashtray.\" \u003ci\u003eIndustrial Valley\u003c\/i\u003e 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. It will intrigue readers for its contemporary as well as its historical implications. The images McKenney evokes of workers confused and enraged by a moribund economy seem startlingly relevant today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction by Daniel Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To Begin With\u003cbr\u003e Book One: JANUARY 1, 1932, TO JUNE 16, 1933\u003cbr\u003e Book Two: JUNE 26, 1933, TO FEBRUARY 14, 1936\u003cbr\u003e Book Three: FEBRUARY 14, 1936, TO MARCH 21, 1936\u003cbr\u003e And Three Years After\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"ILR Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656106471704,"sku":"9780875461830","price":23.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/industrial-valley-paperback-softback-9780875461830","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}