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Vincent Bevins has written a riveting and quite disturbing book about the military coup that took place in Indonesia in 1965 and…
Kim Scipes
Kim Scipes, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Purdue University Northwest in Westville, Indiana. He has published four books and over 280 articles and book reviews in the US and 11 different countries. A free copy of his book on the KMU in its entirety is available on his website at https://www.pnw.edu/personal-faculty-pages/kim-scipes-ph-d/publications just below the pictures of his books, along with links to many of his articles.
Scipes has been an industrial worker (a printer), high school teacher, and office worker over the years, and has been a member of the Graphic Communications International Union, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Education Association, and is currently a member of the National Writers Union; all but the NEA are affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
His newest book, tentatively titled Unions, Race and Popular Democracy: Learning from the CIO to Rebuild a Progressive US Labor Movement in the Mid Twenty-first Century, will be published in late 2025 or early 2026.
Jeff Schuhrke’s latest book, No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, is a major contribution by a US…
Kim Scipes provides an expansive discussion of the labor landscape in the US, including the distinction between trade unions and labor movements,…
[This is the second of a two-part article that examines both structural and processural paradigms of social theory. Part 1 can be read…
[This is the first of a two-part article that examines both structural and processural paradigms of social theory. This argues that the…
Hamilton Nolan is one of an emerging group of journalists who have taken over the “labor beat” in US journalism. This book…
Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, sent his folks home early in July for summer recess so they wouldn’t have to…
I just got back from a quick visit to the KMU Labor Center in the Philippines in late June (2025). KMU, which…
For those of us in and around the trade union movement, Eric Blanc’s new book is an important contribution. He builds on…
The issue of communism in the United States, with a particular focus on the CPUSA (Communist Party of the United States of…