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In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

เรื่องราวสร้างแรงบันดาลใจของริชาร์ด มอนทาเนซ ที่นำเอาการเติบโตแบบคนเม็กซิกัน-อเมริกันมาทำให้เฟลมินฮอตชีโตสกลายเป็นปรากฏการณ์ระดับโลก

ภาพยนตร์อิงจากเหตุการณ์จริงในประวัติศาสตร์สหราชอาณาจักรปี 1912 ที่ประชาชนผู้หญิงลุกขึ้นมารวมตัวกันเรียกร้องสิทธิสตรี หนังเล่าเรื่องผ่านมุมมองของหญิงสาวโรงงานนามว่า โมด วัตส์ (แครีย์ มัลลิแกน) ผู้ตัดสินใจเข้าร่วมกลุ่มหลังจากถูกกดขี่มานาน

In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—'courage, never submit, or yield'.

ฮิลารี่ สแวงค์และแอนเจลิกา ฮัสตันนำแสดงในภาพยนตร์ของเอชบีโอเกี่ยวกับการเคลื่อนไหวเพื่อสิทธิการเลือกตั้งสตรีในอเมริกายุค 1920