• Director: Martin Ritt
  • Release Year: 1979
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

Norma Rae

Description

Frustrated by the unhealthy conditions and low pay in the textile mill where she works, Norma Rae joins forces with a visiting union leader and tries to organize an election to unionize the workers, while the management of the mill does all they can to stop her, and her husband just wishes she’d come home, cook supper, and be with her family.

Themes

Labor unions, Crystal Lee Sutton (1940 – 2009), Women's history, Strikes, Cultural conflicts, Capitalism, Patriarchy, Economic history, Family relationships, Poverty, Social justice, Individualism, Legends and mythologies, Public memory