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After this week’s Democratic National Convention—which went well on their terms for what the Democratic leaders wanted—I strongly believe Kamala Harris will…
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.
I saw a message from a veteran friend of mine recently: he had just received a picture of a dog eating a…
Organised by the College of Complexes, this discussion features Kim Scipes (his talks starts 9 minutes, 53 seconds in). The speaker states…
The role of Zionism, the Histadrut, the AFL-CIO and Solidarity Center are critical issues for trade unionists and the labor movement. The…
The labor movement in the United States used to be respected and looked to for leadership; people cared about what positions labor…
The labor movement in the United States used to be respected and looked to for leadership; people cared about what positions labor…
Encouraged by Flora Tristan’s exhortation—greatly amplified by Marx and Engels—“Workers of the World, Unite!” (Armbruster-Sandoval, 2013), activists have been encouraging workers to…
Kim Scipes reviews Jason Hickel’s Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. Looking through the lens of climate change, Jason…
Adam Aron has written an ambitious book, one he intends to be the book on the subject of the climate crisis; and…
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution is a fascinating book that invites the attention of all activists…