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| Plot Line: 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.
Summary by Kenneth Chisholm at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079638/plotsummary 1-28-07 Norma Rae is a lively, but dependable, wife and mother in an Alabama
mill town. Like her father, her mother and most of her friends, she works
at the Henley mill, spinning and weaving cloth as the days go by without
much apparent purpose. Her "nothing special" life changes when she and
her coworkers meet Reuben, a dedicated, smart-mouthed labor organizer down
from New York to teach the Henley crew about solidarity in a place where
workers and owners alike think "union" and "trouble" are synonymous.
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| SEGMENT 1: 19:30 minutes |
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| Textile mill, 1978 | |||||
| Norma Rai Webster's (NR) Mom goes deaf |
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| Labor organizer Rubin Worshasky (RW) comes to door |
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| NR sleeps w/ textile mill mgr & is abused by him |
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| RW gives NR solace |
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| RW leaflets outside the factory gate, wearing a TWUA button |
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| Factory: NR talks to mgr who gives her a promotion to spot checker, earning an extra $1.50/hr |
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| NR must tell her Dad to work faster |
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| SEGMENT 2: 20 minutes |
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| Ball game |
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Proposal & kiss |
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SEGMENT 3: 19 minutes |
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Wedding btwn NR & Sonny Webster | ||||
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| WR at small gathering asks wkrs to speak | |||||
| Black man is for the union | |||||
| Women & men speak of difficulty of job | |||||
| Woman says her husband died of brown lung | |||||
| SEGMENT 4: 19 minutes |
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| RW has coffee at NR's house & complains he only had 17 of 800 wkrs at meeting | |||||
| NR says let's hit the back country | |||||
| SEGMENT 5: 21+ minutes |
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| SEGMENT 6: 11 minutes |
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