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"Oh-dark-thirty": military slang for "very early in the morning." I remembered it as I delivered my wife, Hans Buwalda, to the Midwest…
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.
Last June, I wrote an article, "Wo sind die Gruenen?" asking "Where are the Greens?" (https://znetwork.org/zspace/commentaries/3133). This was in response to…
As the Bush Administration continues its immoral and illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and as the Democrats pee all over themselves…
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Traveling to both Venezuela and South Africa this past summer, through my work as an academic sociologist, I was able to observe…
In April 2002, following a general strike led by oil company management and collaborating labor union leaders in Venezuela, parts of the…
Returning to the United States from Venezuela is a strange experience. Spending time with poor people hopeful about their future and the…
On March 6th, over 50 union members from several unions and activist allies picketed the headquarters of the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC.…
Standing in the middle of a blizzard in Chicago on December 8, 2005 along with about 250-300 union members and supporters, I…