The ugly side of Walmart

The New York Review of Books discusses several books which deal with the harshness of the working conditions at Walmart's at its long history of sex discrimination. The workers pay the price, the management celebrates its success:"With 1.4 million employees worldwide, Wal-Mart's workforce is now larger than that of GM, Ford, GE, and IBM combined. At $258 billion in 2003, Wal-Mart's annual revenues are 2 percent of US GDP, and eight times the size of Microsoft's. In fact, when ranked by its revenues, Wal-Mart is the world's largest corporation."