Salt Of The Earth Analysis
The film “Salt of the Earth” by Michael Wilson is a 1954 film that shows the prejudice ways against long time resident Mexican-American workers. It takes place in a small town in New Mexico. After a mining accident, workers began protesting the unfair wages and serious hazardous working conditions. A man by the name of Ramon helps the workers organizing the protest but is also found treating his wife Esperanza unfairly as well and that was a concern because why try and protest about someone being unfair while you’re going to do it to your wife? The living conditions are not well for the couple and their three children. So you can only imagine that they are just trying to make a living for themselves After six long months of being on strike,