Civil Rights Act Of 1964: Movie Analysis

Discrimination Generally speaking, discrimination during this time period was simply in the beginning phases of being addressed by the government as a wrongful act. Many advancements and progress still needed to be made. The U.S. Department of Labor implemented the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that was amended in 1970 to ensure nondiscrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, or sex; and to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated fairly during employment (The Federal Register, 2015). In the 1970 women with children represented 47 percent of the workforce, but still were subject to lower wages, only being allowed to have sex-segregated jobs and perceived as inferior
The need to become competitive was very apparent to the national headquarters of the union, due to the delayed response of willing employees to join. It seems that the interpersonal relationship between the national union and the union representative is not up to par. The nation union was given information about Norma’s person life and became afraid that the negative remarks about her would affect the union’s organizational performance measures (Schoute, 2013). Undoubtedly, with little time left before the vote representatives from national union came to express their
This is due to the fact that the movie was based on the real-life experiences of an actual woman named Crystal Lee Sutton. Crystal was born and raised in North Carolina, a young mother of three, who worked for J.P. Stevens cotton Mill (AFT, 2012). After her first union meeting, she realized that she was displeased with a number of things from the load roar of the cotton machines, die stained fingers, the exorbitant amount of cotton dust she inhaled daily, to the measly $2.65 an hour salary she had been receiving for years (AFT,