← Albert HalperThe Foundryby Albert HalperNovel depicting labor struggles and working-class life in Depression-era industrial AmericaFind on Amazon↗About the authorAlbert HalperAlbert Halper was a Chicago-born Jewish novelist of proletarian fiction whose Union Square and The Foundry depicted urban working-class life with vivid sympathy during the Depression decade.More by Albert HalperUnion SquareNovel exploring the lives of workers and union organizers in Depression-era New York City→The Chute→On the Shore→Atlantic Avenue→