Norma Rae (1979)

7.2 | Mar 02, 1979 (US) | Drama | 01:50

factory based on novel or book alabama based on true story single mother union labor textile worker cotton mill

Budget: 4 500 000 | Revenue: 22 228 000

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.