Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class

by Aimee Loiselle

In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a blockbuster 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field in the title role. This fascinating book reveals how the film and the popular icon it created each worked to efface the labor history that formed the foundation of the film's story. Drawing on an impressive range of sources--union records,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469676125
• ISBN13: 9781469676128
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"