Norma Rae
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Norma Rae was a documentary drama based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton's life and the organization of the textile workers at the J.P. Stevens Company in North Carolina. This 1979 film is often referred as a pro-union film. Norma Rae exposes the life of a Southern textile mill worker in Alabama, whose determination changes the lives of people in this small mill town. Although this film is very entertaining, there are many examples of labor and management interactions, including unfair labor practices by management and the procedural process of the unionization of the plant.
Sally Field's feisty, heartfelt portrayal of a dirt poor, widowed mother, trying to raise her two children in a poverty stricken mill town in the late 1960's and early 1970's was powerful and astounding.
Norma Rae along with the workers at the O.P. Henley Mill were used to struggle and adversity, for they both characterize the hardships they had to face in their everyday lives, as well as their employment in the factory...