About this title: On 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780465023158ISBN:0465023150
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2004-11-02
ISBN-13:9780465023158ISBN:0465023150
Description: Very Good. From private collection-not ex-library. Binding is square and tight. Clean inside and out. No writing or highlighting noted (may have name written inside). Only the superficial wear one would expect from shelving and handling. read more
Description: Very Good in VG jacket. 0465023150 some wear to covers and edges, DJ has some scuffing, SIGNED books may have some minor wearhouse damage. Stickers may be on spine or covers. read more
"A very informative and factual book on Wal-Mart. Featherstone has taken a lot of the essays in this book and used them in nationally printed newspaper and magazine articles."
"Inspiring account of real-life women with real-life problems who decide they're not going to be abused anymore; they're going to fight. Reading this makes it impossible to enter a Wal-Mart ever again."
"Never liked Wal-Mart to begin with and now dislike it even more!!! I especially liked it when the union leader stated that Sam Walton's real genius was finding a market in selling to the poor -- ouch!"
"It's good to have a coherent argument and a strong file of facts to back up why I don't shop at Wal-Mart and why it's bad for its employees and just about everyone in America. This book makes it easy to understand one major aspect of Wal-Mart's horrendous labor practices, through the prism of sexism, racism, and class exploitation, and how the case of Dukes vs. Wal-Mart highlights those issues and forces some changes within the company as well as within the country's perception of the company. Don't just be the elitist snob who doesn't get the real Americans who shop and work at Wal-Mart--read this book and band together with the real Americans who want to make it possible to earn a living wage and promotions at Wal-Mart."
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