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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.
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Today, Americans are getting an education in reality that generally cannot be bought, although it might not quite seem that way. We…