UNITED STATES · 1979

Norma Rae

Martin Ritt
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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.

Year1979
CountryUnited States
DirectorMartin Ritt
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