Norma Rae (1979)

The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right.

Cast

Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley

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.