Index to Kim Scipes' Web Pages
Last updated: August 26, 2010.
AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?
[See Fred Hirsch's "Why You Should Read AFL-CIO'S Secret War Against Developing Country Workers" at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/hirsch130810.html.]
Dr. Scipes' latest book will be published in September 2010 by Lexington Books.
April 20, 2007: Dr. Kim Scipes was named the "Outstanding Full-time Teacher" for the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University North Central (PNC) for the 2006-2007 academic year!
To Publications by Dr. Kim Scipes.
To directly reach Dr. Scipes by e-mail: kscipes@pnc.edu.
For a "brief sketch" of Dr. Scipes' career.
Courses currently being taught and will soon be taught.
ON-LINE BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
Book Review and other papers-related Materials
To: Writing Rules
ATTENTION: IRAQ WAR
Active Voices, a PNC (Purdue University North Central) student group, did a forum on our campus on April 29, 2008, whereby they looked at "The Human Costs of War." The highlight of the presentation was a presentation by Vince Emanuele, President of the Indiana Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). The entire event has been archived and can be viewed on-line at http://www.pnc.edu/live/archive/index.html, and click on "The Human Cost of War."
These are stories related to the "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan" hearings organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War that took place March 13-16, 2008 at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD. (All panels are archived on-line at www.ivaw.org.) Extensive references can be found by putting "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan" into Google.)
"Same War. Same Platoon. Two Paths Since Leaving Iraq." Christian Science Monitor, March 21, 2008. The stories of Vincent Emanuele and Travis Pinn--Emanuele attended PNC in Fall 2007, and has subsequently returned. On-line at http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0321/p01s04-usmi.html.
"Veterans Rally Against Iraq War." Time. March 14, 2008. On-line at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1722659,00.html. For full account of "Winter Solider: Iraq and Afghanistan," go to the web site of Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org/index.php.
Special article on up-coming "Winter Solider Hearings" in Washington, DC (March 13-16, 2008), organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War, that talks about the war and some of the affects it has had on US troops:
Leve, Ariel. 2008. "Patriot Missiles: Iraq Veterans Against the War." The (London, UK) Sunday Times, March 2. On-line at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3444835.ece?Submitted=true.
EXEMPLARY STUDENT PAPERS
These are papers that students have written for my courses, and who have agreed to do the extra work to prepare them at least somewhat for publication on this web site, beginning in December 2009. Each has been asked by me for permission to post and each has given specific permission for them to be posted. They will be organized by course, and then by last name, and will be added as we continue over time:
Sociology of the Environment
Fritz, Gerald. 2009. "How to Encourage Change: A Look Into Changing Corporate Perspective." December 10.
Kim Scipes, Ph.D., is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at Purdue University North Central (PNC) in Westville, Indiana, USA. A former Sergeant in the US Marine Corps (1969-73), he specializes on labor, both in the US and internationally. He is an active member of the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association--and was founding editor of the Section's newsletter, In Critical Solidarity--and an active member of Research Committee 44, Labor Movements, of the International Sociological Association. In July 2006, he was elected to the Board of RC 44 for the years 2006-2010.
Scipes is a long-time labor activist. He is a former rank and file member of the Graphic Communications International Union, the National Education Association, and the American Federation of Teachers. He served as the North American representative of the British-based magazine, International Labour Reports, from 1984-1989. He volunteered with the Oakland, CA-based Plant Closures Project, fighting plant closures and economic dislocation in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1983-1989, eventually serving on the Steering Committee. He helped organize community support in 1984 for ILWU #10 (International Longshore and Warehouse Workers Local 10) when longshoremen (dock workers) refused to unload a ship called the Nedloyd Kimberly that had docked in San Francisco, and was carrying cargo to South Africa. He made six trips to the Philippines between 1986-1994, learning from Filipino workers about their struggles. Scipes served as the Executive Director of The Calumet Project in Northwest Indiana in 2002-2003, fighting for economic redevelopment of the region as well as fighting against racial oppression and ecological devastation of the region. In the Summer of 2006, Scipes traveled to Venezuela and South Africa.
Courses Currently Teaching or Scheduled to be Taught at Purdue University North Central
Fall 2010
Introduction to Sociology
Race & Ethnic Diversity (2 sections)
Sociology of the Environment
Reference lists for courses Scipes teaches at PNC
Scipes has done a number of things that have enhanced his academic work: education and work history; research; teaching, publications; and public sociology. Altogether, he has published a book on the militant wing of the Filipino labor movement; a Ph.D. dissertation (which he hopes to turn into a book someday) that compares unionization in steel and meatpacking in the Chicago area between 1933-55 and how the two unions addressed racial oppression, in the workplace, the union, and the community; and over 100 articles and book reviews, in academic, popular, and union publications. These writings have appeared in a number of places in the US--including the American Journal of Sociology, Counterpunch, Critical Sociology, Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, In Critical Solidarity (ASA Labor & Labor Movements Section Newsletter), Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Labor History, Labor Notes, Labor Studies Journal, Monthly Review, Monthly Review Webzine, The Progressive, SSSP Newsletter (Society for the Study of Social Problems), Substance (an educational policy journal in Chicago), Synthesis/Regeneration, Workers' Democracy, Z Magazine and Z Net--as well as in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa, Turkey and Venezuela. In 2007, he had a major article published in the South African Labour Bulletin. He has also published an entry on "developing countries" in the 2nd Edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2008), and an entry on "wage labor" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (2008). A number of these have appeared on various web sites, and those have been linked on this page.
Scipes has created two on-line web pages, that might be of interest, and especially to students. The bibliographies have internal bookmarks and are intended to be complex, yet user-friendly. Anyone is welcome to use either or both bibliographies, and people are encouraged to link to them. (It would be appreciated if a note stating such were sent to him at kscipes@pnc.edu.) These bibliographies are on-going and updated frequently.
First is an on-line bibliography for a course on Contemporary Labor Issues. In this bibliography are many of the most current publications on the US Labor Movement today--especially written by labor activists (rank and filers, staffers and leaders) and engaged academics--as well as publications on a growing number of unions and labor movements around the world.
Second is an on-line bibliography for the courses he currently teaches at Purdue North Central: Racial and Ethnic Diversity (SOC 310), Social Stratification (income inequality--SOC 411), Sociology of the Current Financial Crisis (SOC 391-3), Sociology of Developing Countries (SOC 403), Sociology of the Environment (SOC 404), Sociology of the Media (SOC 405), and Social Movements (SOC 406). He also is adding some general sociological references.