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Kim Scipes
Biography:
Kim Scipes, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University North Central in Westville, Indiana. Scipes, a military veteran (USMC, 1969-1973) and a former rank and file trade unionist--and currently a member of the National Writers Union--has been actively involved in the labor movement for over 20 years, both on domestic and international labor issues. Scipes has also been involved in anti-nuclear weapons, anti-military, anti-plant closures, and solidarity movements over the past 30 years.
In addition to writing a monograph on the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU-May First Movement) Labor Center of the Philippines), and a historical-comparative Ph.D. dissertation on union organizing in Chicago in the steel and meatpacking between 1933-1955 and examining how the unions address racial oppression (in the workplace, union, and community), Scipes has written extensively on AFL and AFL-CIO foreign policy and operations.
Scipes has a MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (Netherlands) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He has published over 70 articles and a book over the last 20 years, mostly on labor and from a global perspective. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals, general magazines, and newspapers, both in the mass media and union publications.
In addition to appearing in a number of venues in the United States, his work has also appeared in hard copy and/or web sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa, Turkey and Venezuela. At Purdue North Central (PNC), he teaches courses on Introduction to Sociology, Social Stratification, and Sociology of Developing Countries, and will teach a course on "Contemporary Labor Issues" in the Summer of 2005--he has initiated an on-line labor bibliography on contemporary labor at http://faculty.pnc.edu/kscipes/LaborBib.htm.
Lecture Topics:
Labor Movement
Anti-Nuclear Weapons
Anti-Plant Closings
Solidarity Movement
AFL and AFL-CIO Foreign Policy and Operations
Social Stratification
Sociology of Developing Countries
Recent Publications:
Labor Imperialism Redux?: The Foreign Policy of the AFL-CIO Since 1995
Monthly Review, May 2005
www.monthlyreview.org/0505scipes.htm
Contact Information:
Kim Scipes
kscipes@pnc.edu