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".
Delhi, India The papers were full of the new of the latest purchases of the giant Tata operations that had moved a protected state steel monopoly into a multi-national steel giant and the largest steel combine in the world. More titillating than their movements into steel in middle of the United Kingdom was the recent announced …
New Orleans Small traders met several weeks ago supported by a half-dozen of the major political parties in India along with several of the national labor centers. The reason was simple: the prime minister’s approval of foreign direct investment (FDI) for single-brand retail. Let me roll it back for you more slowly…. India in the …
New Orleans The largest company and largest employer in the world is of course Arkansas’ own, Wal-Mart. The business model has a lot of elements — low prices, low wages, large supply, convenience to customers, are among them — but another one is the need to constantly expand whether that means opening 300 or more …