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Students tell the Indiana Department of Environmental Management: Gary is not a dump
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.
A review of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power, by Alfred W. McCoy
Any labor organization must be built on member democracy, where members control the union, and not just the formal leaders
in 2016, union membership was only 6.4 percent of workers in the private sector, and 34.4 percent of the public sector, giving an overall percentage of 10.7 percent
Review of A Great Vision: A Militant Family’s Journey Through the 20th Century, by Richard March
From a talk at Open University of the Left, 3-18-2017, Chicago, Illinois
Rushing into the streets, as exhilarating as it can be, is not enough for the long haul. And if we want to win, we have to be prepared for the long haul
Revisiting this film might be one place to start the process of consolidating the resistance,
During the Apollo 13 space flight in 1970, US astronaut Jack Swigert spoke to the command center in Houston, Texas, indicating a…
Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System