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A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcom...

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Uniform Title:Salt of the earth (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Independent Productions Corporation, International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, Alpha Video Distributors
Other Authors: Biberman, H. J. (Herbert J.), Revueltas, Rosaura, Chacón, Juan, Geer, Will
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: ©2004
Subjects:
Strikes and lockouts > Zinc mining > New Mexico > Drama.
Miners > New Mexico > Labor unions > Drama.
Mexican Americans > New Mexico > Drama.
Historical films.
Motion pictures, American.
Feature films.

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