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	Norma Rae
		There's a scene in the movie "Norma Rae" were Sally Field, playing the hard-working, hardheaded textile worker who defies the company to help start a union, goes skinny-dipping with the young Jewish labor organizer from New York on a hot day.
		Some of Cyrstal Lee Sutton's life and times were dramatized in "Norma Rae," but after the victorious election that ends the movie, the real-life scene was that she had to find a job.
		In the climactic scene of the movie, after Norma Rae has been fired, she stalks back into the plant, writes the work UNION on a piece of paper and stands on a table to show it to all her co-workers above the din of the machines and is then carried out by police.
	faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu /jselden/norma_rae.htm (2319 words)

	Norma Rae (1979)
		Under the guidance of a New York unionizer (Ron Leibman) and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages.
		Norma Rae lives and dies with its performances, as the framework for the film rests firmly upon the strength of its actors.
		She tried so hard to make Norma Rae a Strong Forceful Woman that she could become over-the-top; it became something of a diva turn in which it seemed like we were mainly just supposed to be impressed by her Acting.
	dvdmg.com /normarae.shtml (1861 words)

	"Norma Rae" by Henry Giroux
		NORMA RAE, written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr., and directed by Martin Ritt, may be such a film.
		Thus Norma Rae's union work and development as a woman are portrayed against the ensuing struggles she has with her husband and family, as well as with her friends and herself.
		Norma Rae's feminism, her struggle for independence, is seen as part of a larger social struggle.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC22folder/NormaRae.html (3330 words)

	normarae
		Norma Rae characterizes the leadership skills of a New York male labor organizer and a southern female textile factory worker.
		Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions.
		Norma Rae joined the union and got the company to unionize by challenging the audience to fight for what they believe it is right.
	www.angelfire.com /ny3/mbhs4282/normarae.html (770 words)

	Deanna Gagnon
		As the film progresses and Norma Rae fights for her rights, it is difficult to believe that economic system under which she works is that of capitalism.
		Norma Rae was able to form a union because the system maintained that she had the authority to do so.
		Norma Rae, was not a pristine example of capitalism, since the factory was steeped with bad practice.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~dlgagnon/normarae.html (832 words)

	Norma Rae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Norma is a worker in a textile mill in a small single-industry southern town where she finds herself a lone voice in the fight for better conditions for the workers.
		Norma Rae is one of those films that on paper sounds very pat, but has much more to offer than just a 'little-guy-against-big-business' scenario.
		Norma Rae succeeds on many levels, but probably mostly in showing us that in a world where there seems to be so little to believe in, monumental things can be achieved by someone with a vision and the courage to take a stand.
	www.classicsondvd.com /norma.htm (507 words)

	Norma Rae - Synopsis - Moviefone
		This causes dissension at home when Norma Rae's husband Sonny (Beau Bridges) assumes that her activism is a result of a romance between herself and Reuben.
		Despite the pressure brought to bear by Management, Norma Rae successfully orchestrates a shutdown of the mill, resulting in victory for the union and capitulation to its demands.
		Based on a true story, Norma Rae is the film for which Sally Field won her first Oscar; an additional Oscar went to the film's main song, It Goes Like It Goes.
	movies.aol.com /movie/norma-rae/22956/synopsis (170 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Norma Rae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Norma lives with her aging parents and her two small children in a backwater southern town where the textile mill owns the town and the townspeople.
		Norma strives to convince the other workers that they are getting a raw deal and helps them believe they have the power to bring about change.
		Norma Rae earned Field an Academy Award for Best Actress, helping move her away from the goody-two-shoes image created by her television shows The Flying Nun and Gidget, and towards a more serious movie-acting career.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/n/normarae.q.shtml (436 words)

	Norma Rae Essay
		We are witness to the workers tolerating their deplorable working conditions throughout the film as when Norma Rae's mother loses her hearing due to the overbearing noise that the factory machines make and is told that her condition is "normal" and "temporary," nothing to be too concerned about.
		This protrayal of capitalism is contrary to the euphamistic way capitalism is usually protrayed as the champion economic system for the working man; a system of rational suppy and demand, hailing the accomplishments of the average worker and rewarding his efforts with a decent wage and the possibility of job advancement.
		The negative capitailism that existed in the story of Norma Rae was modified to a much more worker-friendly type of capitalism in which worker concerns could be voiced and even answered without the fear of job termination while the company was still satisfied because it ws turning a profit.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~jlgangne/normarae.html (1086 words)

	Norma Rae Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		In the summer of 1978, Norma Rae becomes fed up with the atrocious working conditions — which have caused injury to her own family members — and the low wages at the mill.
		In the film's most affecting scene, Norma Rae turns off her machine in protest, climbs on top of a table, and holds a piece of cardboard high above her head, with the word "union" handwritten on it in fl marker.
		Though she is arrested and dragged away by the police, Norma Rae is later vindicated when the factory workers take a vote, and vote union.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=1058 (866 words)

	Norma Rae (1979)
		Set in the industrial South and based on a true story, Martin Ritts NORMA RAE is a moving portrait of a womans fight to improve both her own life and the deplorable conditions that exist in the mill where she works.
		Norma Rae (Sally Field) has worked at the textile mill for years, but when a union organizer from New York comes to town, Norma takes on the hostility of the mills management and the apathy of her coworkers to try to unionize the mill.
		When Norma, uneducated and poor, finally expresses her disgust with life at the mill, it is an electrifying moment, and Field radiates this energy for the rest of the film, providing an emotional core and drive that gives the picture its power.
	movies.go.com /norma-rae/d817828/drama (318 words)

	Norma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She is shown as a young girl, as a teenager, as a bride, as a mother of two, as a waitress, and finally as a woman at thirty-two.
		Norma and Reuben run into each other again at the local motel, where the organizer is renting a room for himself.
		Norma observes Reuben from afar, and it is at this time that she makes up her mind to join the union.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /phil/forum/Norma.htm (2907 words)

	Review - Norma Rae (1979) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sally Field exudes an infectious effervescence as the title character of "Norma Rae," a female empowerment drama, which wisely avoids becoming too bogged down in its unionist-themed subtext.
		A second generation textile worker, Norma Rae is a single mother of two who finds herself inspired and enlightened by a union organizer from New York (Ron Leibman) who wants to bring the concept of a workers' union to her sleepy Southern town.
		"Norma Rae's" original theatrical trailer, as well as trailers for a whole host of Fox's other fem-skewed DVDs are also included.
	www.cinetalk.org /review_norma_rae.htm (378 words)

	Amazon.com: Norma Rae: DVD: Barbara Baxley,Beau Bridges,Robert Broyles,John Calvin,Booth Colman,Sally Field,Gilbert ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Norma Rae goes against the grain to try and convince the 800 workers that this is the best thing for them and their children(Who will also probably work there some day).
		Norma is an unassuming factory worker from a small town in the South, who is widowed and has two kids with two separate fathers.
		Norma Rae writes down what is on the notice and management tries to stop her.
	www.amazon.com /Norma-Rae-Barbara-Baxley/dp/B000059HAN (2182 words)

	Norma Rae (1979) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But after being inspired by a union-organizer(Ron Liebman, in an Oscar-worthy supporting performance), Norma Rae is awakened to the possibilities of life, and, what's more, everything that is wrong with the mill that seems to suck the energy and hope from those who stand there day after day trying to earn an honest dollar.
		Martin Ritt's direction is focused and firmly rooted(he never sugarcoats Norma Rae's character, and sometimes she's not that likable)and the script manages to sidestep preachiness to get its points across entertainingly.
		"Norma Rae" is involved and long, but it's memorably bittersweet, with a simple, haunting finish, and Field is in top form.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0079638 (592 words)

	Norma Rae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This lady, who Audrey Townsend has named "Norma Rae," is a mill worker taking a break outside Carr Mill Mall, beside Townsend Bertram & Company Adventure Outfitters.
		Audrey, who has known the sculptor for years, commissioned the piece to sit in the Townsend Bertram yard 2 years ago.
		Norma Rae was completed and moved to her current location on March 3, 2001.
	carrboro.com /normarae.html (282 words)

	Norma Rae (1979) Movie Review - RopeofSilicon.com
		Norma Rae is a 20th Century Fox release directed by Martin Ritt and was released on March 2, 1979.
		Her fight to improve deplorable working conditions at the textile plant causes a rift between her and the people closest to her, but her determination brings a new awareness to her and to all the women with whom she works.
		Ritt's typical, socially conscious story uses the politics of Norma Rae's struggle and also its emotions to build the film to a rousing climax.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /review.php?id=964 (244 words)

	Norma Rae - Moviefone
		Rating: NA Synopsis: Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill.
		Norma Rae (1979) Sally Field's acting in this movie is impeccable.
		Norma Rae There's a scene in the movie "Norma Rae" were Sally Field,...
	movies.aol.com /movie/norma-rae/22956/main (173 words)

	Norma Rae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This lady, who Audrey Townsend has named "Norma Rae," is a mill worker taking a break outside Carr Mill Mall, beside Townsend Bertram & Company Adventure Outfitters.
		Audrey, who has known the sculptor for years, commissioned the piece to sit in the Townsend Bertram yard 2 years ago.
		Norma Rae was completed and moved to her current location on March 3, 2001.
	www.carrboro.com /normarae.html (282 words)

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		A single mother and dedicated worker, Norma Rae is passing her days in the textile mill in Henley, Alabama.
		Norma Rae and Reuben fight management, executives and even their own co-workers to improve the conditions at the mill and create a union.
		Norma Rae quickly realizes just what she's capable of and how much she deserves when she stands up for what she believes in.
	www.trulymovingpictures.com /movie-view.aspx?id=284 (152 words)

	Norma Rae
		Norma Rae standing on the table with the sign, "Union"
		Reuben Warshawsky (Ron Leibman) speaks to a meeting of poor, unorganized mill wporkers in the deep South: "On October 4, 1970, my grandfather, Isaac Abraham Warshowsky, aged eighty-seven, died in his sleep in New York City.
		Norma Rae leads the other workers to form a community/union and leave the slavery of the unsafe mill.
	www.textweek.com /movies/norma_rae.htm (330 words)

	Norma Rae (1979) Movie - Reviews of Hollywood, English and world cinema by Jeevi
		Norma Rae a single mother works in Henley Textiles mill to make ends meet.
		The story of the film is about how she joins hands with him, fights against the management and wins.
		Norma Rae has a troubled personal life that is infested with illegal relationships and two kids born out marriage.
	www.jeevimovie.com /dvd-normarae.html (252 words)

	Norma Rae (1979) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Continuity: In the scene in Reuben's hotel room after Norma Rae has been hit, you see her take the ice pack away from her nose.
		The shot changes and she takes it away a second time.
		Field proved that she could handle delicate material and carry a film to cinematic history.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0079638 (317 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: Norma Rae, Sally Field, DVD, Wide Screen / Mono / Stereo
		Norma Rae is primarily a spellbinding dramatization of one woman's story, but it's also a moving tale of courage and empowerment that becomes more inspirational with each viewing.
		Based on a true story, Norma Rae is the film for which Sally Field won her first Oscar; an additional Oscar went to the film's main song, "It Goes Like It Goes." Hal Erickson
		I decided I would finally watch "Norma Rae" and see for myself why people have been raving about Sally Field's performance for all these years.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=24543013747 (742 words)

	Norma Rae — Full Specification and Descriptions for Norma Rae at PriceLeap.com
		In an Oscar-winning performance, Sally Field is unforgettable as Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had.
		Based on a true story, Norma Rae is the mesmerizing tale of a modern day heroine.
		Prices and products specifications for Norma Rae are provided by the merchants.
	www.priceleap.com /description/Norma_Rae--277631 (272 words)

	Perspectives of a Nomad: Moni Becomes the new Norma Rae
		Moni isn’t doing this for publicity, or to drive traffic to her blog, or to get recognized on the street, much like Norma Rae, who was not self-aggrandizing at all.
		And at first Norma Rae was made out to be some sort of criminal or evil person by big business for helping the Unions prevent some of these injustices, much as Moni is experiencing now.
		Wasn’t it only a couple months ago that Germany and France were our champions in the whole Mohammed Cartoon controversy, screaming to the world that we can not allow free speech to be intimidated, even in the face of the overwhelming danger from the protests spreading throughout Europe.
	scottageb.blogspot.com /2006/03/moni-becomes-new-norma-rae.html (1312 words)

	Amazon.com: Norma Rae: Video: Barbara Baxley,Beau Bridges,Robert Broyles,John Calvin,Booth Colman,Sally Field,Gilbert ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sonny takes a shining to Norma and starts to date her.
		That is until Norma Rae's father dies after a supervisor refuses to let him off when he was feeling bad.
		DVD EXTRA: Backstory: Norma Rae - When AMC decided to launch an informational series about making of films that made a difference, their first episode was on Norma Rae.
	www.amazon.com /Norma-Rae-Barbara-Baxley/dp/6300247139 (2055 words)

	Workplace Prof Blog: Blawg Review #73
		It makes sense to start all this with an example of what we mean when we talk about the battle between labor and management: Jordan Barab of Confined Space has the details of one particularly nasty fight over the "Taxpayer Bill of Rights" and public employment between AFSCME and Richard Berman's Center for Union Facts.
		More toys for labor = advantage for Norma Rae, but more connections to work all the time can lead to workalcoholism and even liability for the employer for promoting addiction in its employees, according to this post by Chris McKinney at The HR Lawyer's Blog.
		Craig Williams of May It Please The Court have the scoop on employers suing other employers under unfair competition laws for using illegal immigrant workers Advantage: Norma Rae (many unions support the rights of immigrant workers, but employers are facing lawsuits in these cases and losing cheap sources of labor).
	lawprofessors.typepad.com /laborprof_blog/2006/09/blawg_review_73_1.html (2011 words)

	Norma Rae - HomeVideos.com
		Norma Rae (1979) - PG Norma Rae is a single mother and tired textile worker employed by a tyrannical factory with unbearable work conditions.
		When she steps forwards as the key associate to a labor union organizer, the two decide to tackle the risky struggle of unionizing her factory in hopes they will improve conditions if victorious.
		NORMA RAE was nominated for the Best Picture award.
	www.homevideos.com /movies/normarae.htm (127 words)

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