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The United States of America has been the pre-eminent country on Earth for over 40 years.[i] There are many competing analyses of…
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.
In mid-March 2023, David Swanson published a very interesting article: “Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned.” There were some things in…
Africa has long been looked at by outsiders as a continent that is hopelessly mired in corruption and incapable of social and…
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), a UN agency with climatologists from over 70 counties included) has just come out with…
One of the encouraging things this long-time labor activist has been watching over the past several years is the emerging development of…
Source: CovertAction Magazine Labor activists from across the country, members of a number of unions, publicly announced the creation of LEPAIO, the…
Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers
Interview on the role of US labor internationally including the National Endowment For Democracy NED and the AFL-CIO “Solidariity Center”
The death of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney has evoked examinations of his legacy. One can praise the good things but its important to address the bad things so we can have a more accurate understanding of his time
Review of Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz (Monthly Review Press)