By Jesse Russell

Liza Featherstone's critically acclaimed book "Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart" has been released in paperback. The book investigates how the historic lawsuit involving 1.6 million women came about and analyzes how a company that holds itself as a champion of family values, sells female employees short. The Workers Independent News checked in with Featherstone to see how things have changed at the company since the hardback was published a year ago.

She says the world's largest retailer says it has made some changes:

[Featherstone1]: Wal-Mart has said that their pay rates more to ensure women are paid fairly - again - there is no data on that so it is hard to know whether that's true.

Featherstone says the biggest change has been in the public dialogue:

[Featherstone2]: An internal study that Wal-Mart did recently showed that between two and eight percent of Wal-Mart customers had recently decided to no longer shop at Wal-Mart because of negative press. You know, just a couple years ago the idea that some people would not shop at Wal-Mart because of something bad they heard was inconceivable.

More from this interview is available at laborradio.org.