1. Salt of the Earth Bread and Roses Comparisons And Contrasts

2. The similarities Based on true stories, miners strike and Justice for Janitors campaign Female heroic figures or protagonists (Esperanza and Maya) Based on a struggle for justice and dignity for workers Powerful political messages of support for the ambitions of working people of color Overcome great odds to triumph

3. The Similarities, cont., Anglo male organizers (Barnes and Shapiro) Same struggle of dignity for working men and women Men and women as equals Workers are betrayed by their own Face repression and political consequences by political powers.

4. The Contrasts Salt has an important racial dimension to the struggle, little of this in Bread and Roses Immigrant workers in Bread and Roses, native citizens in Salt of the Earth Contemporary labor struggle with mostly immigrant workers Maya and Esperanza, their political transformations.