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On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney pointed out that, “For all practical purposes, Americans have lost the…
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.
This past September, I wanted to write something about the juxtaposition of the extremely successful mobilization against the war in Iraq on…
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As one who has written a number of articles about the struggle to transform AFL-CIO foreign policy into genuine international labor solidarity…
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The AFL-CIO’s ‘Solidarity Center’ (formally known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity or ACILS) was actively involved in bringing together…
The AFL-CIO is having its quadrennial convention in Chicago next month (July 2005) in Chicago. The labor movement is hurting: only about…