[Item #31533] The Adventures of Agent Truboy. Joseph HOCHBERG.

The Adventures of Agent Truboy

N.p. United Office and Professional Workers of America, CIO, [ca.1941-42]. First Edition. 12mo. (13.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Fine copy.

Brief work of labor fiction written by a Brooklyn insurance agent, following the career of one Agent Truboy, an entry-level agent in a large, anonymous insurance company. The novelette follows his career beginning in the late 1920's, through the Depression, and the aftermath of World War II. Early on, Agent Truboy discovers the insurance racket is rigged against the agent, and becomes disillusioned until he joins a newly formed union and begins to affect change. Not found in OCLC, though we do note 2 copies held at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation, Cornell University.

Price: $125.00

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