Significance
In 2004, journalist Liza Featherstone published a book about the case, Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart in which she contends that Wal-Mart's success is based not only on its inexpensive merchandise or its popularity but also on bad labor practices, a charge she repeated in an article about the case for The Nation. Featherstone compared Dukes to Rosa Parks.
Conservative commentators have criticized the lawsuit as an abuse of the class action mechanism.
Read more about this topic: Wal-Mart V. Dukes
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