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 Outline on the Video:  North Country
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-  Project:  Video:North Country, Work, Gender
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  A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the US, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed & won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.  A semi fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment & numerous & continuous insults & unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.  
 
Segment 1:  23:02
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  Abused, leaves home, gets job in mine.  
 
Segment 2:  28:34
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  Meets lawyer  
 
Segment 3:  28:39
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  Talks to sick woman, who refuses to become codefendant  
 
Segment 4:  27:01
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Segment 5:  14:25
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  Trying to find codefendants.  Trial  

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