“In Dubious Battle”
.Focus upon how characters represent the various ideas held by capital and labor by the 1930”s
.consider the structures of power and how they shape the strikes he describes
.Include Sienbecks characterization of the communist party, the plight of workers he describes and the response of capital to the challenge of labor. Do you think this is a pro-communist or pro-worker novel? where do you think stienbeck stands on these questions?
.paper must include spacifac citations from novel.
.tie in some info from class-conflict of the post civil war late 1800”s


