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I loved this essay. That certainly was a plucky lady. It's well written in a way that, I could almost picture the Big Bossman, grossly overweight, puffing a cigar, trying to intimidate her with his Southern drawl. I can cast his part! She stood up to him, and then had the guts to stand up on a table with a "Union" sign! Cool! Phil Novalski. | I loved this essay. That certainly was a plucky lady. It's well written in a way that, I could almost picture the Big Bossman, grossly overweight, puffing a cigar, trying to intimidate her with his Southern drawl. I can cast his part! She stood up to him, and then had the guts to stand up on a table with a "Union" sign! Cool! Phil Novalski. | ||
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| + | I think was a very powerful piece, that really drew attention to the fact that even though women had made strides in labor laws via federal legislation, there were some places where such things didn't matter. By the way the Wagner Act was in place in 1935, but in 1973 unions were still outlawed in most southern companies. As was the way with segregation - the south and their notion of states rights - bah! And it took 5 years for Norma Rae to get her job back, after losing it only by acting within her Constitutional rights? I wonder how labor laws are in the South today. ~Juliann Boyles | ||
== Susan Eisenberg, “Hard-Hatted Women,” 1988. == | == Susan Eisenberg, “Hard-Hatted Women,” 1988. == | ||
