Norma Rae
Norma Rae is a 1979 film about a Southern textile worker who becomes a labor union organizer, for which Sally Field won an Academy Award.
The name has become shorthand for a working-class person who fights for workers' rights against corporate interests: She went full Norma Rae on management when they cut the health plan.
- unionJoining into one
- union organizingForming workplace collectives
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- labor rightsEmployees' legal workplace entitlements
- textileMaterial from woven fibers
Sally Field · factory · cotton mill · strike · labor · organizer · picket · stand up · workers · sign · courage · struggle · wages · minimum wage · fair wages · solidarity · Southern · Deep South
- 1979 FilmsApocalypse Now, Kramer vs Kramer, Rocky II, Star Trek, Mad Max
- Working-Class DramaThe Full Monty, Billy Elliot, Rosetta, Sweet Sixteen, Grapes of Wrath
- Labor Movementlabor leaders, union organizers, union leaders, labor activists, labor movement
labor activism stance
Norma Raeunion buster
One who dismantles organized labor
scab · strikebreaker · company man · bootlicker · robber baron
norm, norms, normal, normally, normality, normalize, normalized, normalization, abnormal