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Jun 30, 2015 · Norma Rae works for minimum wage in a cotton mill. Her whole family has experienced health problems from working there, and after hearing a New York union organizer named Reuben speak, she decides to unionize the shop.
Nov 5, 2021. Like a lot of her family before her, Norma Rae (Sally Field) works at the local textile mill, where the pay is hardly commensurate with the long hours and lousy working conditions....
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PG. Runtime: 1h 54min. Release Date: March 2, 1979. Genre: Drama. In an Oscar-winning performance, Sally Field is unforgettable as Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never had.
Aug 4, 2020 · Naomi Fry writes about the movie “Norma Rae,” from 1979, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Sally Field as a textile worker who fights for the unionization of her Southern home town’s mill.
Mar 2, 2019 · 40 Years Ago, Norma Rae Understood How Corporations Weaponized Race. The 1979 Sally Field–starring drama showed how solidarity between black and white workers was often targeted to undermine...
Showing all 59 items. Jump to: Photos (43) Quotes (16) Photos. 20 more photos. Quotes. Norma Rae Webster : Forget it! I'm stayin' right where I am. It's gonna take you and the police department and the fire department and the National Guard to get me outta here! Norma Rae Webster : How long I been comin' to this church, Reverend?
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
