Selling Women Short - 9780465023165
Un libro in lingua di Liza Featherstone edito da Basic Books, 2005
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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 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Selling Women Short
- Sottotitolo: The Landmark Battle For Workers' Rights At Wal-Mart
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Liza Featherstone
- Editore: Basic Books
- Collana: Basic Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 06 Settembre '05
- Genere: LAW
- Argomenti : Sex discrimination in employment United States Sex discrimination in employment Law and legislation United States Sex discrimination against women United States
- Pagine: 290
- Dimensioni mm: 196 x 133 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0465023169
- EAN-13: 9780465023165