Beyond Norma Rae David L. Porretta Qualitative Research Practice

Qualitative Research Practice

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Beyond Norma Rae David L. Porretta Qualitative Research PracticeIn 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, industry