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 Selling Women ShortThe Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Martby Liza Featherstone Sep 6, 2005
DescriptionOn television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a fifty-two-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class action, representing 1.6 million women. In her explosive investigation of this historic lawsuit, journalist Liza Featherstone reveals how Wal-Mart, a self-styled "family-oriented," Christian company: Deprives women (but not men) of the training they need to advance. Relegates women to lower-paying jobs like selling baby clothes, reserving the more lucrative positions for men. Inflicts punitive demotions on employees who object to discrimination. Exploits Asian women in its sweatshops in Saipan, a U.S. commonwealth. Featherstone goes on to reveal the creative solutions that Wal-Mart workers around the country have found, like fighting for unions, living-wage ordinances, and childcare options. Selling Women Short combines the personal stories of these employees with superb investigative journalism to show why women who work these low-wage jobs are getting a raw deal, and what they are doing about it. A new preface to the paperback edition will reflect on Wal-Mart's response to this lawsuit and its critics-including this one. Reviews"A powerful indictment of how Wal-Mart has treated its female employees." "[Featherstone] skillfully explains the circumstances behind this litigation that could eventually change the way a national powerhouse conducts business." "[Selling Women Short] portrays the world's largest retailer as greedy, sanctimonious and grossly unfair to its female employees." "For your insensitive brother-in-law...that should change his way of thinking."
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