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Most business books fall into one of two categories. There are the investigative and crusading anti-business screeds about greedy corporations, and then there are the celebratory explications of how those corporations accomplished their amazing feats.
To his credit, the veteran business journalist Rick Wartzman’s new book about Walmart’s labor practices isn’t so easily categorized. In fact, he embraces both paradigms, as revealed in the book’s title: Still Broke: Walmart’s Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism. Through his careful, exhaustive research and engrossing storytelling, Wartzman will surely simultaneously please and annoy the higher-ups in Bentonville, Arkansas.
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