Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Martin Ritt
- Writer
- Harriet Frank Jr.
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $4,500,000
Cast
Barbara Baxley
Beau Bridges
Booth Colman
Gail Strickland
John Calvin
Morgan Paull
Pat Hingle
Robert Broyles
Ron Leibman
Sally Field
Keywords
alabama
based on novel or book
based on true story
cotton mill
factory
labor
single mother
textile worker
union
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