Publications by Kim Scipes--Last updated: August 26, 2010.

Most recent publications:

Scipes, Kim.

--- 2011. Forthcoming. "Globalization from Below: Labor Activists Challenging the AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program." Critical Sociology.

--- 2010. "Book Review: Transition from Below: Forging Trade Unionism and Workplace Change in South Africa by Karl von Holdt." In Critical Solidarity [Newsletter of the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association], Vol. 10, No. 1, August: 7-9.

--- 2010. "Book Review: Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and WCFL: Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926-78 by Nathan Godfried." Labor History, Vol. 51, No. 1, February: 153-155.

--- 2010. "It's Not Good for the Environment, Either: A Book Review of The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of the Military by Barry Sanders." Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine for Green Social Thought, Spring: 16-17. On-line at www.thefreelibrary.com/It's not good for the Environment, either.-a0227631416.

--- 2010. "Movie Review: "Let's Make Money by Erwin Wagenhofer." Z Net, February 21. On-line at www.zcommunications.org/lets-make-money-by-kim-scipes.

--- 2009. "Book Review: Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Politics of the Chavez Government by Gregory Wilpert and Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chavez Phenomenon by Steve Ellner." South African Labour Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 4: 59.

--- 2009. "An Alternative Perspective for the Global South--Neoliberal Economic Policies in the United States: The Impact of Globalization on a 'Northern' Country." Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 2, No. 1, January-June: 12-47. An slightly earlier version is on-line at www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21584.

--- 2009. "A Sociologist Critically Examines Paul Krugman's Economics: A Review of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008." Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 2, No. 1, January-June: 217-223. On-line at www.countercurrents.org/scipes120609.htm.

--- 2009. “Reviewing Wilpert: An Extended Review of Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The Policies of the Chavez Government by Gregory Wilpert.” Z Net, June 26. On-line at www.zmag.org/zbooks/review/219.

--- 2009. "It's Time for a Deep Green Vision for the United States ... and the World." Synthesis/ Regeneration, No. 48, Winter 2009: 8-11. On-line at www.greens.org/s-r/48/48-04.html.

Overview of Dr. Scipes' publications:

Since 1984, I have written and been published on a wide number of subjects--as of May 4, 2010, I have published 138 separate articles, and one book, with another book (forthcoming) being published in September 2010.

My academic work is divided into books and peer-reviewed articles.

My articles that have been published in specialty and serious popular publications--in hard copy, in hard copy and on web sites, and sometimes only on a web site--are listed by Subject: Miscellaneous Publications; International Political Economy; Environmental/Ecological Politics, Urban Politics, War/Military/Empire, Philippines; Venezuela; Labor Theory; Building Grassroots Labor Internationalism; International Labor (not Philippines); US Labor (not including AFL-CIO Foreign Operations); AFL-CIO Foreign Operations. (With only a few exceptions, there is almost no overlap of the articles in the above-listed categories--and, whenever possible, electronic links to articles are provided.)

However, on April 25, 2007, I created a new category, Neo-liberal Economic Policies. This brings together my writings on this subject from the Philippines, South Africa, Venezuela and the United States (from different categories)--each based on personal field research.

NOTE: While most of the links herein work well, there are some that do not. I checked each one on May 4, 2010, and each is operable as of this date unless indicated otherwise.

Scipes, Kim.

BOOKS:

--- 2010. Forthcoming. AFL-CIO's Secret War on Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 276pp.

For background on the book, and a 20% discount, see Fred Hirsch, "Why You Should Read AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers" at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/hirsch130810.html.

--- 1996. KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980-1994. Quezon City, Metro Manila: New Day Publishers, 316pp (Available from inter-library loans or from www.kabayancentral.com/book/newday/mb1009609.htm.)

PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC ARTICLES:

--- 2000. “It’s Time to Come Clean: Open the AFL-CIO Archives on International Labor Operations.” Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer: 4-25. [Posted on-line in English by LabourNet Germany at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes2.html.]

--- 2007. "The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela: Was the AFL-CIO Involved?" Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Vol. X: 133-147. [An earlier version is on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3088.]

--- 2010. Forthcoming. "Globalization from Below: Labor Activists Challenging the AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program." Critical Sociology.

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS

--- 1997. “Book Review: Revolution, Socialism and Nationalism in Viet Nam by Ken Post” [Five volumes]. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. [Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University], Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall: 194-196.

--- 1999. “Book Review: Globalization, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms by Peter Waterman.” SSSP Newsletter [Society for the Study of Social Problems], Vol. 30, No. 1, Winter: 37-38. [This was on-line at www.sssp1.org/index.cfm?FuseAction=page.main&tmsi=148&pageID=161&detailID=800, but is no longer available.]

--- 2002. “RC 44 Rocks: Report from ISA’s World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, July 2002.” In Critical Solidarity (ASA Labor & Labor Movements Section Newsletter), Summer 2002: 7-8.

--- 2003. Solicited “Book Review: Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001 by Kenneth Warren.” Left History, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring: 163-167.

--- 2008. "Developing Countries." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, Vol. 2: 335-337.

--- 2008. "Open Letter to the Chicago Tribune on the Future of the Tribune and Mass Media Local Newspapers." ZNet, June 19, 6pp. On-line at www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17945.

--- Solicited “Book Review: Work and Society: Sociological Approaches, Themes and Methods by Tim Strangelman and Tracey Warren.” Working Class Notes: The Newsletter of the Working-Class Studies Association, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Fall: 11.

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

--- 1984. “Industrial Policy: Can It Lead the U.S. Out of Its Economic Malaise?” New Labor Review [Labor Studies Program, San Francisco State University], No. 6, Spring: 27-53. Updated and republished in pamphlet form (December).

--- 1998. “The Economic Crisis in Asia is Not Under Control.” January 9. [Posted only on-line at www.tricon.com/%7ersantos/control.htm, but no longer available at this URL.]

--- 1998. “All Is Not Well in the World Economy.” January 12. www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/25/027.html [This is the Hartford Web Project’s “Gateway to World History-World History Archives (sources for contemporary history)” site.]

--- 1998. “Economic Meltdown in Asia, 5/28/98.” May 28. www.vcn.bc.ca/summit/ EM%20may28.htm. [This is the site of the Virtual People’s Summit on APEC (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation), but this article is no longer available at this URL.]

--- 1998. “The ‘Success’ and Failure of the Asian ‘Financial’ Crisis.” July 3. www.vcn.bc.ca/summit/success.htm, but no longer available at this URL.

--- 1999. “The Global Economic Crisis and the US Economy.” February 18 www.cosatu.org.za/samwu/scipes2.htm, but is no longer available at this URL.

--- 1999. “‘They’ Have Become ‘Us’: Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the People of East Asia.” Canadian Dimension [Winnipeg, Manitoba], Vol. 33, No. 3, May-June: 24-26.

--- 2000. “Equity and Health.” July 1. Global Futures Bulletin #111, Institute for Global Futures Research, Earlville, Australia. [Posted at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/claude.rochet/fiches/mond/eq&health.html].

--- 2004. “International Income Inequality: Wither the United States?’ Z Net: August 18, 5pp. http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/8025.

--- 2006. "Venezuela and South Africa: Redistributive Policies vs. Neo-liberal Economic Policies." MR Zine, September 25, 7pp. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes250906.html. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3080.

--- 2007. "Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States: The Impact on American Workers." Z Net, February 2, 19pp. On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/2139.

--- 2010. "Movie Review: "Let's Make Money by Erwin Wagenhofer." Z Net, February 21. On-line at www.zcommunications.org/lets-make-money-by-kim-scipes.

NEO-LIBERAL ECONOMIC POLICIES AROUND THE GLOBE

--- 1999/2000.“Review of the Month: Global Economic Crisis, Neoliberal Solutions, and the Philippines.” Monthly Review, Vol. 51, No. 7, December 1999: 1-14. [Posted on-line at www.monthlyreview.org/1299scip.htm.] [This article, with minimal editing, was republished as “Detrimental Development: The Global Economic Crisis and the Philippines.” Indicator South Africa: The Barometer of Social Trends [University of Natal, Durban], Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2000: 87-90.]

--- 2007. "Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States: The Impact on American Workers." Z Net, February 2, 19pp. On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/2139.

--- 2010. "Movie Review: "Let's Make Money by Erwin Wagenhofer." Z Net, February 21. On-line at www.zcommunications.org/lets-make-money-by-kim-scipes.

ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGICAL POLITICS

--- 2007. "Wo sind die Gruenen?" (Where Are the Greens?) Z Net Daily Commentary, June 11, 3pp. On-line at www.zcommunications.org/wo-sind-die-gruenen-where-are-the-greens-with-apologies-to-leon-rosselson-by-kim-scipes.

--- 2007. "The Green Party: Critique, Response, and the Illinois Greens October 2007 Membership Meeting." Z Net Daily Commentary, November 2, 5pp. On-line at www.zcommunications.org/the-green-party-critique-response-and-the-illinois-greens-october-2007-membership-meeting-by-kim-scipes.

--- 2008. "Reviewing Monbiot's Heat." Z Net, May 14, 2pp. On-line at www.zcommunications.org/reviewing-monbiots-heat-by-kim-scipes.

--- 2008. "The Green Party: An Electoral Force to be Reckoned With?" Synthesis/Regeneration, No. 46, Summer: 44-46. On-line at www.zcommunications.org/the-green-party-an-electoral-force-to-be-reckoned-with-by-kim-scipes.

--- 2009. "It's Time for a Deep Green Vision for the United States ... and the World." Synthesis/Regeneration, No. 48, Winter 2009: 8-11. On-line at www.greens.org/s-r/48/48-04.html.

--- 2010. "It's Not Good for the Environment, Either: A Book Review of The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of the Military by Barry Sanders." Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine for Green Social Thought, Spring: 16-17. On-line at http://www.thefreelibrary.com/It's not good for the Environment, either.-a0227631416.

URBAN POLITICS

--- 1991. “Conditions in an American City: Oakland, California.” Scholas Issues [Institute of Social Studies, The Hague], No. 1, January: 8-16.

--- 2003. “Opinion: NIRPC [Northwest Indiana Regional Planning Commission] Must Change Course To Be A True Leader.” (Gary, IN) Post-Tribune, June 12: B-11.

--- 2006. "Book Review: The Cost of Being Poor: A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana by Sandra L. Barnes." Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 2: 197-199.

--- 2008. "Book Review: Electoral Politics is Not Enough: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Urban Politics by Peter F. Burns." Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 3: 353-354.

WAR/MILITARY/EMPIRE

--- 1985. “Guest Column: The Vietnam War Hasn't Ended Yet.” The (Oakland, CA) Tribune, September 21: 12.

--- 1993. “Book Review: Empire and Emancipation: Power and Liberation on a Global Scale by Jan Nederveen Pieterse.” Z Magazine [Boston], March: 69-70.

--- 1996. “Book Review: The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam War by Richard Moser.” Z Magazine, July/August: 77-78; and The Veteran [Chicago: Vietnam Veterans Against the War], Vol. 26, Fall: 4, 17. [Posted on-line at http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=298.]

--- 2000. “Book Review: Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention and Hegemony by William I. Robinson.” Z Magazine, February: 60-61.

--- 2002. “9/11/01: Ramifications on the US Social Order--An Early Impression.” Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations [Department of International Relations at Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey], Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer: 157-177. [Posted on-line in English by Alternatives at http://www.alternativesjournal.net/volume1/number2/kim.htm].

--- 2003 “Support Our Troops--It Depends.” San Francisco Call, March 21, 4pp. On-line at www.sfcall.com/issues%202003/3.21.03/scipes%203.21.03.htm.

--- 2005. "It's the Beginning of the End--For the Empire, Not Just the War." ZNet, December 1, 3pp. On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/4903.

--- 2007. "How the 'GI Movement' Ended the Vietnam War (and was erased from history): A Review of 'Sir, No Sir!,' a film by David Zeiger." Substance, an educational policy journal in Chicago, Vol. 33, No. 7, March: 5.

--- 2008. "'Getting on the Bus for Justice': Veterans from Chicago and Northwest Indiana Participate in 'Winter Soldier' Hearings in Washington, DC Area." Substance (an education policy journal in Chicago), Vol. 33, No. 8, April: 24, 20. On-line at www.zcommunications.org/getting-on-the-bus-for-justice-veterans-from-chicago-and-northwest-indiana-participate-in-winter-soldier-hearings-in-washington-dc-area-by-kim-scipes. Also on-line at www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=15850.

--- 2009. "Book Review: The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of the Military by Barry Sanders." Countercurrents, December 29. On-line at www.countercurrents.org/scipes291209.htm.

PHILIPPINES

--- 1986. “The Labor Movement in the Philippines.” Labor Notes, April: 8-9, 13.

--- 1986. “Trade Union Education in the Philippines: Its Role in the National Liberation Struggle.” Trade Union Studies Journal [London, England], No. 13, Summer: 18-19.

--- 1987. “KMU: Building Rank and File Unionism in the Philippines.” ideas and action [San Francisco], No. 8, Spring: 12-15.

--- 1988. “Learning from the KMU: Alliance Building.” Workers' Democracy, No. 28 (Conference on WSO, Second Issue): 8-12.

--- 1989. “International Union of Food Workers Expels Philippine Affiliate.” Labor Notes, April: 12.

--- 1989. “Aquino's War Against Labor.” The Workers' Voice [Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines], Vol. I, No. 9, April: 1, 3, 5, 7-8, and Agong International [Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Philippines], April-June: 15-18.

--- 1989. “IUF Expels Philippine Workers.” The Workers' Voice, Vol. I, No. 9, April: 6.

--- 1989. “KMU won over TUCP in Atlas Mine.” The Workers' Voice, Vol. II, No. 2, October 15-November 15: 3-4, 11.

--- 1989. “The AFL-CIO Meddles in the Philippines.” The Progressive [Madison], November: 33.

--- 1990. “The Philippines: Aquino's Total War and the KMU.” Z Magazine, January: 116-121.

--- 1990. “Interview with Cleofe Zapanta, Secretary General of the KMK [women workers organization] of the Philippines.” Z Magazine, May: 105-107.

--- 1990 “Learning from the KMU: Alliance Building” in Don Fitz and David Roediger, editors, Within the Shell of the Old: Essays on Workers’ Self Organization. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company: 81-88.

--- 1990. “Three Weeks with the KMU in the Philippines.” Workers' Democracy, No. 36, September-October: 1-7.

--- 1993. “Radical Labor in the Time of Marcos and Aquino: The Development of the Kilusang Mayo Uno.” Solidarity [Solidaridad Publications, Manila], No. 139-140, July-December: 35-68.

--- 2000. “Communicating Labor Internationalism: The KMU’s ‘International Solidarity Affair’.” January 3, 29pp. www.antenna.nl/~waterman/scipes.html. [This site, created and maintained by Peter Waterman, is known as “The Global Solidarity Dialogue” Site, and features “Analysis, Theory and Strategy” toward building global solidarity.]

--- 2001. “Round Two: People’s Power in the Philippines Removes Another President.” Z Net Daily [e-mail] Commentary, Z Magazine, January 25, 5pp. On-line at www.zcommunications.org/round-two-peoples-power-in-the-philippines-removes-another-president-by-kim-scipes.

VENEZUELA

--- 2002. “AFL-CIO and Venezuela: Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction?” ZNet, May 2. On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/12128.

--- 2004. “AFL-CIO in Venezuela: Déjà vu All Over Again.” Labor Notes, April: 5, 7pp. On-line at www.counterpunch.org/scipes03292004.html. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/8846.

--- 2005. "An Unholy Alliance: The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela." ZNet, July 10, 7pp. Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5864.

--- 2006. "Reverse Solidarity: The Reactionary Role of US Labor in Haiti and Venezuela." On-line transcript of a radio interview with Kim Scipes and Jeb Sprague by Dennis Bernstein of Flashpoints Radio, 4pp. Carried nationally on the Pacifica Network. Transcript published by Upside Down World at www.upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/327/1/.

--- 2006. "Ten Days in Venezuela: A Visit to the Land of Hope." Venezuela Analysis, July 7, 7pp. On-line at www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1771. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3614.

--- 2006. "Venezuela and South Africa: Redistributive Policies vs. Neo-liberal Policies." MR Zine, September 25, 7pp. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes250906.html. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3080.

--- 2006. "The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela: Was the AFL-CIO Involved?" September 25, 17pp. On-line at www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3088.

--- 2006. "Venezuelan Labor--An Update." Labor and Working Class History Association Newsletter, No. 5, December: 1, 4.

--- 2007. "The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela: Was the AFL-CIO Involved?" Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Vol. X: 133-147. On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3088.

--- 2008. "Book Review: Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chavez Phenomenon." MR Zine, July 17, 4pp. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes170708.html.

LABOR THEORY

--- 1992. “Social Movement Unionism and the Kilusang Mayo Uno.” Kasarinlan [Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines], Vol. 7, Nos. 2-3 (4th Qtr. 1991-1st Qtr. 1992): 121-162. [On-line at http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/article/view/1393/pdf_38, and on-line in English by LabourNet Germany at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/smu/smuks_ka.pdf.]

--- 1992. “Understanding the New Labor Movements in the 'Third World': The Emergence of Social Movement Unionism, A New Type of Trade Unionism.” Critical Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 2: 81-101. [Posted on-line in English by LabourNet Germany at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/smu/The_New_Unions_Crit_Soc.htm ]

--- 2000. “Social Movement Unionism: A Call for Theoretical Clarification.” Comparative Labour Movements Research Committee (RC44) Newsletter [Johannesburg], International Sociological Association, December: 6.

--- 2001. “Social Movement Unionism: Can We Apply the Theoretical Conceptualization to the New Unions in South Africa--And Beyond?” LabourNet Germany, June 5, 37pp.[Posted on-line in English with incorrect date (2003) at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/smuandsa.html.].

--- 2008. "Wage Labor." The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, edited by Peter N. Stearns. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, Vol. 7: 521-524.

BUILDING GRASSROOTS LABOR INTERNATIONALISM

--- 1985. “San Francisco Longshoremen: ‘When that ship came in, we were ready’.” International Labour Reports, No. 9, May-June: 12-13.

--- 1988. “Building the New Shop Floor Internationalism.” Workers' Democracy, No. 26: 8-15.

--- 1990. “The New International Labor Movement.” Workers' Democracy, No. 35, July-August: 1-2.

INTERNATIONAL LABOR (NOT PHILIPPINES)

--- 1984. “British Printers Defy ‘Unjust’ Law, But Fail to Win Labor Federation's Backing.” Labor Notes, January: 10.

--- 2003. Solicited “Book Review: Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto by Dan La Botz. Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Department des relations industrielles, Universite Laval (Quebec), Vol. 58, No. 4, Fall: 722-724.

--- 2004. “Book Review: Hidden Knowledge: Organized Labor and the Information Age by D.W. Livingstone and Peter H. Sawchuk.” [Canadian workers.] Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 29, No.3, Fall: 119-120.

US LABOR (NOT INCLUDING AFL-CIO FOREIGN OPERATIONS)

--- 1984. “Educating Workers to Fight Plant Closures: Experiences of the Plant Closures Project of Oakland, California, USA.” Trade Union Studies Journal, No. 9, Summer: 24-25.

--- 1984. “The Reagan Toll.” International Labour Reports, No. 6, November-December: 9-10.

--- 1985. “Mass Picketing Gets Mission Foods Off the Shelves.” Labor Notes, February: 3, 6.

--- 1985. “Viewpoint: Labor is Begging for Respect Instead of Earning It.” Labor Notes, July: 12.

--- 1987. “Building a Socialist Labor Movement in the United States.” Workers' Democracy, No. 25, Fall: 3-7.

--- 1988. “Organizing Non-Hierarchical, Egalitarian Workplace Organizations.” Workers' Democracy, No. 29: 7-10.

--- 1989. “Uniting Workplace-Oriented Activists: Local Alliances and a National Network.” Workers' Democracy, No. 32, Summer-Fall: 8-17.

--- 1989. "Book Review: Eric Mann's Taking On General Motors: A Case Study of the UAW Campaign to "Keep GM Van Nuys Open." Workers' Democracy, No. 33, October-November-December: 18-19.

--- 1990. “Book Review: Cultures of Solidarity by Rick Fantasia.” Z Magazine, April: 73-74.

--- 1991. “Building a New American Labor Movement in the Context of the Struggle for an Ecologically-Sustainable Society.” Unpublished M.A. Paper, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands.

--- 1991. “Labor-Community Coalitions: Not all They're Cracked Up to Be” [a review of Building Bridges: The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community, edited by Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello]. Monthly Review [New York], December: 36-48. Posted on-line at http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n7_v43/ai_11686039.)

--- 2000. “The US Labour Movement and Seattle.” Comparative Labour Movements Research Committee (RC44) Newsletter [Johannesburg], International Sociological Association, March: 3. Posted on-line at www.wits.ac.za/fac/arts/swop/mar00.htm#2, but no longer available.

--- 2000. “Book Review: Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor by Paul Buhle.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, No. 6, May: 1772-1774.

--- 2003. “Introduction” (with Margaret Hallock) by Co-editors of “Generating Power for the Labor Movement,” Conference Edition of Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring: i-iv.

--- 2003. “US Labor Against the War: A Report from the Founding National Assembly.” Z Net, October 28, 2pp. On-line at www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/9636.

--- 2003. “Trade Union Development And Racial Oppression In Chicago’s Steel And Meatpacking Industries, 1933-1955.” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 427pp.

--- 2005. "Distilling the 2005 AFL-CIO Convention: Disaster Ahoy!" MRZine (Monthly Review webzine), August 8, 3pp. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes080805.html.) Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5658.

--- 2005. "US Labor Leaders: Missing in Action." MRZine. September 14, 4pp. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes140905.html. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5389.

--- 2005. "Labor: Eyeless in America." MRZine, October 31, 5pp. Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes311005.html. Also posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5103.

--- 2005. "Labor: Engaging the Community and Building Grassroots Legitimacy--A Report from Northwest Indiana." MR Zine, November 25, 5pp. Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes251105.html.

--- 2005. "Labor Rights: If Unions Won't Fight for Them, Then What Good Are Unions?" MR Zine, December 14. Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes141205.html. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/4796.

--- 2006. "When Will the AFL-CIO Leadership Quit Blaming the Chinese Government for Multinational Corporate Decisions, US Government Policies, and US Labor Leaders' Inept Responses?" MR Zine, July 3. Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes030706.html.

--- 2008. "Labor, Empire and Globalization: An Extended Review of Solidarity Divided." Z Net, December 27, 9pp. On-line at www.zcommunications.org/zbooks/review/108.

AFL-CIO FOREIGN OPERATIONS

--- 1987. “AFL-CIO’s International Bulletin is Sophisticated Misinformation.” Labor Notes, January: 15.

--- 1987. “Picketers Challenge AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy.” Labor Notes, May: 12.

--- 1989. “Trade Union Imperialism in the U.S. Yesterday: Business Unionism, Samuel Gompers and AFL Foreign Policy.” Newsletter of International Labour Studies [Institute of Labor Education, Research and Information, The Hague, The Netherlands], Nos. 40-41, January-April: 4-20.

--- 1993. “Book Review: Workers of the World Undermined: American Labor's Role in U.S. Foreign Policy by Beth Sims.” Z Magazine, November: 61-62.

--- 1997. “What is the AFL-CIO Doing in the Third World?” NACTA Voice, Fall. [NACTA Voice is the journal of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association of the United States, but is longer available.]

--- 1998. “CIA, AFL-CIO, and Pinochet.” December 2. Posted on-line at www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/42a/126.html.

--- 2000. “Building International Labor Solidarity One Central Labor Council at a Time.” Z Net Daily [e-mail] Commentary, Z Magazine, October 21. [Posted in English on LabourNet Germany at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes1.html.]

588 on December 12.

--- 2002. “AFL-CIO and Venezuela: Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction?” Posted on the Z Magazine web site, at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/12128 on May 2.

--- 2003. “‘Labor’s Cold War’ von Tim Shorrock, The Nation vom 19. Mai 2003: Rezension von Kim Scipes.” [“Labor’s Cold War” by Tim Shorrock, The Nation of May 19, 2003: Reaction by Scipes.] [Posted in English on the LabourNet Germany web site, at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes3.html on May 12.]

--- 2004. “AFL-CIO Refuses to ‘Clear the Air’ on Foreign Policy, Operations.” Labor Notes, February: 2. (Article begun in newsletter, but complete article is on-line at http://labornotes.org/node/957.)

--- 2004. “AFL-CIO in Venezuela: Déjà vu All Over Again.” Labor Notes, April: 5. On-line at www.counterpunch.org/scipes03292004.html. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/8846.

--- 2004. “California AFL-CIO Rebukes Labor’s National Level Foreign Policy Leaders.” Labor Notes, September: 14. (Article introduced in newsletter, carried in whole on web site at www.labornotes.org/archives/2004/09/articles/h.html, but no longer available. A more complete, un-edited, version of this article is at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/2139.)

--- 2004. “Grass-roots Trade Unionists Rein in America’s ‘AFL-CIA’.” Red Pepper [London], September: 16.

--- 2005. "AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Help Develop Bush's Foreign Policy, Target Foreign Unions for Political Control." Labor Notes, March. On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/6706.

--- 2005. "Labor Imperialism Redux? The AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Since 1995." Monthly Review, Vol. 57, No. 1, May: 23-36. (References are in on-line version only at www.monthlyreview.org/0505scipes.htm.) Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/6370.

--- 2005. "Response to Ray Scannell." Portside, June 5. (Posted on-line at www.portside.org/showpost.php?postID=2143, but no longer available.)

--- 2005. "Are AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Engaging in Dirty Tricks? Foreign Policy Efforts Being Challenged." ZNet, June 23. Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5991.

--- 2005. "Background Information to AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Operations in Venezuela." VHeadline, July 6. [Initially posted on-line at www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=40457, but no longer available; superseded by "An Unholy Alliance: The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela"--see below.]

--- 2005. "Key Recent Articles on AFL-CIO Foreign Policy." Chicago Indymedia Center, July 10. Posted on-line at http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/60035/index.php.

--- 2005. "An Unholy Alliance: The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela." ZNet, July 10. Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5864.

--- 2005. "Free Labor from the Empire: Breaking the NED-Solidarity Center Connection." MR Webzine, July 19. Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes190705.html. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5756.

--- 2005. "Head of AFL-CIO International Affairs Department Refuses to be on Amy Goodman's 'Democracy Now!' Program with Labor Activists Kim Scipes and Fred Hirsch." Chicago Indymedia Center, July 26. (Posted on-line at http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/60815/index.php.) Rush transcript from the Goodman interview with Scipes and Hirsch, as well as both an audio and video version of interview, can be found at www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/26/1419259.

--- 2005. "AFL-CIO Foreign Policy: Final Report from the Convention." ZNet, August 2. Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5710.)

--- 2005. "Reinserting 'Details'." ZNet, August 22. Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5572.

--- 2006. "Workers' Rights ARE Human Rights--Not Just in the USA, but around the World." MRZine, January 25. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes250106.html. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/4514.

--- 2006. "Worker-to-Worker Solidarity Committee to AFL-CIO: Cut All Ties with NED." MRZine, April 29. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes290406.html. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3954.

--- 2006. "A Specter is Haunting the AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Program: The Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee." MRZine, June 2. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes020606.html.

--- 2006. "The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela: Was the AFL-CIO Involved?" September 25, 17pp. On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3088.

--- 2006. "The AFL-CIO and International Policy: Empire or Life?" Socialist Dialogue: Monthly Newsletter of the Socialist Potluck (Madison, WI), Vol. 13, No. 10, November: 2-3.

--- 2006. (with Fred Hirsch.) "Open Letter to Institute of Policy Studies: It's Time to Take Off the Halloween Masks." SolidarityInfoServices, November 2. Was on-line at www.futureoftheunion.com/?p=3441, but is no longer available.

--- 2007. "Is Cosatu Playing with the Devil? Investigating the AFL-CIO and Its Solidarity Center." South African Labour Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 5: 15-18. On line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/2465.]

--- 2007. "The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela: Was the AFL-CIO Involved?" Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Vol. X: 133-147. [This is an updated, and peer-reviewed version of an earlier piece. On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3088.)

--- 2010. Forthcoming. AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

--- 2010. Forthcoming. "Globalization from Below: Labor Activists Challenging the AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program." Critical Sociology.

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