FROM THE FILM NORMA RAE
The 1979 film NORMA RAE is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Jordan, who had been blacklisted by every textile union in the South for her fight against the conditions at those mills. NORMA RAE is a moving portrait of a woman's fight to improve both her own life and the deplorable conditions that exist in the mill where she works. Proudly working-class, as well as unmistakably pro-union, it is also a deeply feminist film that chronicles one woman's process of empowerment and links that process to mentoring instead of to sexual romance. Norma Rae (Sally Field), a single mother of two, works in the same textile mill as the rest of her family and neighbors. The atmosphere in the windowless mill is hot, grey with cotton dust, and filled with a (literally) deafening clatter of antiquated ma-chinery. Conditions are pretty bad - lousy wages, long hours, and minimal health precautions. But in the company town of 'Henleyville' workers feel powerless to im-prove their conditions. Sex and alcohol are Norma's only release, until a labor organizer with the Tex-tile Workers Union of America (TWUA), a New Yorker named Reuben Warshovsky (Ron Leibman), shows up in town. It's a hard road for him since anti
This fear of unemployment was the mechanism that allowed the Textile Mill to push its workers to the limit. com/newsh/items/moviereview/item_2769. Retrieved May 19, 2004, from http://www. In the film Norma Rae, the textile workers of the O. To make ends meet, Norma Rae lives with her parents, who are also employed by the mill. com/software/review/dvd-video_3/normarae. A large cultural barrier in the film was racism. She asks his permission to hold a union meeting at the place of wor-ship. You're going to get us in a whole lot of trouble. He promotes solidarity in the workplace by teaching the workers that by acting as a union, they can overcome their different divisions within the mill. In another instance, Norma Rae was asking him if she could get fired for join-ing the union. Reuben was able to put up fliers that would attract workers to join the union. In addition to these other choices of employment there was also a different economic system that the workers could have chosen to be a part of. She tries to persuade him to believe that the union is the right thing to do and that it would be better for the members of the town.
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