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Workers are the basis of every society because that is their efforts which push every society forward. This social class, which makes up a large proportion of the population in every country, has always been faced with a lot of livelihood, legal and social problems. In every periods of the history, we are witnessing the protest of a number of workers against their hard conditions. The most important workers movement around the world is the one occurred in French Revolution of 1848 which leads to the Formation of the First Government of the Labor Commune in 1871 in Paris, then another revolution of the same manner in 1917 in Russia. Such revolutions realized in the literature of the countries. Realistic writers who were interested in workers' problems have tried to reflect such events. Emil Zola was the greatest writer who reacted effectively in his Germinal work and affected the literature of other countries. In Iran, Ali Ashraf Darvishan reacted on workers movements by creating Salhaye Abri. In the present paper, the researcher is trying to investigate The genre of labor literature as a component of the whole literature in order to put light on the effect of such workers movements on literature. Additionally, in this paper, it is revealed what aspects of such movements have been attended in Iran and French's great writers, namely Emil Zola and Ali Ashraf Darvishian.

Keywords: Labor literature, comparative literature, proletarian movements, germinal, cloudy years

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