Norma Rae
The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right.
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.
- Year: 1979
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Keyword: factory, based on novel or book, alabama, based on true story, single mother, union, labor, textile worker, cotton mill
- Director: Martin Ritt
- Cast: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley, Gail Strickland