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The recent book review essay on Wal-Mart in the New York Review of Books, Inside the Leviathan by Simon Head digs behind the scenes of the retail giant that finds itself increasingly in the business news limelight. Head observes:

Wal-Mart is Fortune's most admired corporation, the star of McKinsey's productivity study, and the subject, as recently as last April, of a hagiographic cover story in The Economist, "Wal-Mart: Learning to Love It."

Head's article examines Wal-Mart's success in enforcing worker discipline, discrimination against female emplolyees, and its anti-union stance.