WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans It almost seems quaint to remember that some decades ago, the rise of “contingent” workers was seen as a big deal and an emerging crisis for US workers. Countless studies, books, and ad hoc coalitions arrived to look at the problem. These were workers essentially on-call without full-time schedules or benefits …
Washington, DC Workers are under assault in some many ways these days, both domestically and internationally, that it’s easy to forget that nothing has really been “fixed” when it comes to the precarious status of so-called gig workers. Are they independent free agents, free to come and go, and not under the thumb of …
Mumbai Being in Dharavi, where ACORN has worked for almost twenty years, and meeting with our members one day, and then the ACORN Women’s Waste Collective on another, the concerns about the impending redevelopment plan for this huge community of almost one-million residents and workplaces was palpable. The Adani Group somehow won this controversial …