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Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (Updated Edition) by Liza Featherstone, Basic Books Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-465-02316-9 / 0465023169 ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02316-5 / 9780465023165 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 |