Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle": The Power Struggle Between Owners And Workers
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Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle": The Power Struggle Between Owners and
In Dubious Battle it was the culmination of events such as the
lowering of wages, unsafe equipment and unsanitary living conditions which
finally motivated the workers to use their power to strike. Torgas valley
was in the hand ....
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.... wages and over
charging for food. This dehumanized the workers because it did not allow
them to have any hope. Universally the pickers pretended to be content
with the quality of their life in fear of losing the little they have.
After they decided that they could know longer live under the horrid
conditions that the owners put them under they executed their power to
strike.
Since power is the ability of its holder to exact compliance or
obedience of other individuals to his will on what so ....
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