A mill worker transforms from a passive employee into a union leader after confronting harsh conditions, management retaliation, and personal sacrifices.
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.
Martin Ritt
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