Skip to content
  • Home
  • About & Bio
  • The Organizer Documentary
  • Organizations
  • Training
  • Video
  • Press
  • Writings >
    • Books
  • Radio
  • Contact

The Chief Organizer Blog

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".

Tag: General Motors

White Collar Blues is an Unaddressed Economic and Political Issue

Ideas and Issues December 2, 2018December 4, 2018 by digital

Washington    A line in an Associated Press story in the local papers caught my eye:  “Since 2008, roughly a third of major US metro areas lost a great percentage of white-collar jobs than blue-collar jobs.” That’s not the political and economic headliner that most people are following.  The Trump administration is trying to save the …

Continue Reading

Real Jobs for Real People in the Informal Economy

Citizen Wealth May 11, 2011 by wade

New Orleans I argued yesterday that as important as “new” industries and mass employers are in finding real employment for millions, that the days when headlines of General Motors hiring 4000 workers are going to be few and far between.  What we need is localized informal workshops, training, production, marketing, and sales that can provide …

Continue Reading

Follow Us

Facebooktwitterlinkedinyoutubeinstagramfoursquare

Email Subscription to Blog

Join 2,229 other subscribers

RSS follow along in a feed reader

  • Rebranding All of the Safety Net as Welfare
  • Is the US Up for Sale Now?
  • What Goes Up, Musk Go Down!
  • Curtis Yarvin is Scary, but Not Alone
  • Every Vote Still Counts

Blog Stats

  • 118,901 hits

Categories

Archives

Blogroll

  • ACORN International
  • ACORN International on Facebook
  • Books by Wade
  • Organizers Forum
  • Social Policy
  • Twitter
  • ULU Local 100

Interviews with Wade Rathke

04/16/2021

Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

03/18/2021

Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

Religion Dispatches: Forty-year organizing veteran has plenty of new ideas

Corporate Knights: The Magazine for Clean Capitalism

Intrepid Liberal Journal

The Peter B Collins Show

For Original Writing by Wade Click Here

The Other Side of the News
Facebook Twitter Instagram Rss
© 2025 The Chief Organizer Blog – MinaLite theme by ZThemes