Index to Kim Scipes' Web Pages
Last updated: May 3, 2012.
Latest book by Dr. Kim Scipes:
AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers:
Solidarity or Sabotage?
Now out in paperback at a greatly reduced price!
Reviews of Scipes' book:
2012. (March 5). "Kim Scipes on AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?" 57 min.
Video interview by Steve Zeltzer of Labor Video Project of San Francisco. On-line at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUsLrlie_Q.
Multiple reviews (with details about the book, including ordering with 20% discount) at: Solidarity or Sabotage?
Previous book by Dr. Kim Scipes: KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980-1994. (1996)
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.
Dr. Scipes supports Vince Emanuele's new radio program "Veterans Unplugged" from Michigan City, Indiana, USA, initially for US military veterans, but which has expanded to include interviews with some of the most interesting, and critical thinkers in the US (and, lately, including people from around the world); www.veteransunplugged.com. Interviews are archived and can be listened to by anyone at http://veteransunplugged.com/theshow/archive. The live show is from 5-7 pm Central (Chicago) time, every Sunday, and can be heard live over www.wimsradio.com.
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 The entire event has been archived and can be viewed on-line at http://www.pnc.edu/live/archive/index.html, and click on "The Human Cost of War."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 Associate 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.
Dr. Scipes is faculty advisor to the Purdue University North Central Veterans Club, and advises the local radio show, "Veterans Unplugged," (www.veteransunplugged.com) which appears weekly on WIMS Radio-AM 1420 in Michigan City, Indiana (but which is live streamed around the world at www.wimsradio.com, and archived).
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
Spring 2012
Introduction to Sociology (SOC 100)
Race & Ethnic Diversity (2 sections) (SOC 310)
Sociology of the Media (SOC 405)
Reference lists for courses Scipes teaches at PNC
Dr. Scipes obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology in 2003 from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Previously to that, he completed a Masters of Arts in Development Studies (1991) at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands, where he completed the Program in Alternative Development Strategies. He has taught at Purdue North Central since August 2004, initially as a Visiting Professor, then a tenure-track Assistant Professor, and now as a tenured Associate Professor.
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 two books--one on the militant wing of the Filipino labor movement, and one on the foreign policy of the AFL-CIO; 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 130 articles and book reviews, in academic, popular, and union publications, in the US and around the world.
Scipes' writings have appeared in a number of places in the US: American Journal of Sociology; Chicago Indymedia Center; Counterpunch; Critical Sociology; Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University); ideas and action; In Critical Solidarity (ASA Labor & Labor Movements Section Newsletter); Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences; Journal of Urban Affairs; Labor and Working Class History Association Newsletter; Labor History; Labor Notes; Labor Studies Journal; Monthly Review; Monthly Review Webzine; New Labor Review (Labor Studies Program, San Francisco State University); The Progressive; San Francisco Call; Socialist Dialogue: Monthly Newsletter of the Socialist Potluck (Madison, WI); SSSP Newsletter (Society for the Study of Social Problems); Substance (an educational policy journal in Chicago); Synthesis/Regeneration: A Journal of Left Green Social Thought; The Veteran (Newspaper of Vietnam Veterans Against the War); Third World Traveler; Upside Down World; Workers' Democracy; Working Class Notes: The Newsletter of the Working-Class Studies Association; Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society; Z Magazine; and ZNet.
Scipes' writings have also appear in a number of journals in nine different countries around the world: Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations (Department of International Relations at Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey); Canadian Dimension (Canada); Comparative Labour Movements Research Committee (RC44--International Sociological Association) Newsletter (Johannesburg, South Africa); Global Futures Bulletin (Australia); Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations (Mohandas Gandhi University, Kerala, India); Indicator South Africa: The Barometer of Social Trends (University of Natal, Durban); International Labour Reports (Manchester, England); Kasarinlan (Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines); LabourNet Germany (Germany); Left History (York University, Toronto, Canada); Newsletter of International Labour Studies (Institute of Labor Education, Research and Information, The Hague, The Netherlands); Solidarity (Solidaridad Publications, Manila, Philippines); Red Pepper (London, England); Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Department des relations industrielles, Universite Laval (Quebec, Canada); South African Labour Bulletin (South Africa); The Workers' Voice (The Newspaper of the National Federation of Sugar Workers-Food & Allied Trades, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines), Trade Union Studies Journal (London, England); and Venezuela Analysis (Caracas, Venezuela).
In addition to having a number of articles published overseas, Dr. Scipes has given papers at various World Congresses of the International Sociological Association (Brisbane, Australia--2002; Durban, South Africa--2006; and Gothenburg, Sweden--2010), and at a mid-term conference of the International Sociological Association (Barcelona, Spain--2008). He has given papers at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), and the University of Windsor (Canada). He has made major addresses at the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, Netherlands), and at University of the Witswatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). He also has spoken before trade union and labor audiences in England, Germany, the Philippines, and Sweden.
Dr. Scipes has also been published in major international sociological encyclopedias. He 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).
Scipes has created two on-line web pages, that might be of interest, and especially to students--while people are welcome to print either or these or both, be advised that each are over 100 pages long! 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), 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.