Strike action: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Salt of the Earth (1954 film)|Salt of the Earth]]'', Director: [[Herbert J. Biberman]], USA 1953–Fictionalized account of an actual zinc-miners' strike in [[Silver City, New Mexico]], in which women took over the picket line to circumvent an injunction barring "striking miners" from company property. The striking women were largely played by real members of the strike, and one woman was deported to Mexico while filming. The union organizer [[Clinton Jencks]] (from [[Jencks v. United States]] fame) also participated.

* ''[[The Molly Maguires (film)|The Molly Maguires]]'', Director: [[Martin Ritt]], 1970 film starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris. Frustrated by the failure of strike action to achieve their industrial objectives, a secret society among Pennsylvania coal miners sabotages the mine with explosives to try to get what their industrial action failed to obtain. A Pinkerton agent infiltrates them.

* ''[[Norma Rae]]'', Director: [[Martin Ritt]], 1979.

* ''[[Matewan]]'', Director: [[John Sayles]], 1987{{snd}}critically acclaimed account of a coal mine-workers' strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of [[West Virginia]].