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Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Publication date 1987 Topics African American iron and steel workers - Fiction, Iron and steel workers - Fiction, African. ' College Language Association Journal 32.1. This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. RT jacobin: Looking for an exceptional working-class novel You should read Marxist novelist William Attaway’s 1941 book 'Blood on the Forge. ' Playing the Wishing Game : Folkloric Elements in William Attaway's Blood on the Forge. ![]() ![]() Praised by both Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, this classic of Black literature is a brutal depiction of the Great Migration from the Jim Crow South ![]() |