Standing Tall: Women Unionize the Catfish Industry Movie Review 2001

In Mississippi during the 1980s, the mostly black female workforce had to work for minimum wage in noisy and wet catfish factories without benefits, bathroom breaks, or recourse if they were mistreated until a few women made the risky and difficult effort to organize the United Food and Commercial Workers local 1529.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 50 minutes.

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Genres

Labor & Unions