David Brody (historian)

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David Brody (born June 5, 1930 in Elisabeth (New Jersey) ) is an American historian and, alongside David Montgomery and Herbert Gutman, founder of the new labor history in the USA, which focuses on the cultural and social history of workers.

Brody's parents, Ira and Barnet Brody, were working-class immigrants, and Brody grew up in a working-class neighborhood with part-time jobs, including factory jobs, to support his schooling and studies. He studied history at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1952, a master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1958. His dissertation on steel workers in the US in the 19th century before and in the initial stages of organization in Trade unions established its reputation. It was published as a book in 1960 (The Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era). In his own words, the fact that he turned to workers' history was more of a coincidence (when he started his dissertation he actually intended to work on the First World War and its influence on public opinion. However, the new social history research in the United States after the war offered quite a lot Series of interesting, as yet unsolved problems: 1958/59 he taught at Northeastern University , 1959-1961 at Harvard University, 1961-1965 at Columbia University and 1965-1967 at Ohio State University . He has been a professor at the university since 1967 of California, Davis , where he retired in 1993. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at the University of California, Berkeley .

Brody was visiting professor at the University of Warwick , Lomonosov University and the University of Sydney .

He is a member of the Society of American Historians and the American Historical Association , whose sub-organization on the Pacific coast he chaired in 1991/92. From 1976 to 1979 he served on the Council of the Organization of American Historians .

In 1978 he was a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities , a Fulbright Lecturer in 1975 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983. In 2008 he received the Sol Stetin Award for Labor History from the Sidney Hillman Foundation and a Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History Award from the Labor and Working-Class History Association.

He is a member of the National Writers Union.

Fonts

  • The American Labor Movement , University Press of America, 1985 (Reprint)
  • The Butcher Workmen: A Study of Unionization , Harvard University Press, 1964. * Essays on the Age of Enterprise: 1870-1900 , Ft. Worth: Dryden Press, 1974.
  • In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worke , New York: Oxford University Press USA, 1993
  • Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights , University of Illinois Press, 2005.
  • Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919 , University of Illinois Press, 1987
  • Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era , 1960, University of Illinois Press, 1998.
  • Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth-Century Struggle , 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press USA, 1993.
  • The Old Labor History and the New: In Search of an American Working Class , Labor History, Volume 20, 1979, pp. 111-126

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brody, American Historical Association

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personal data
SURNAME Brody, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Elisabeth (New Jersey)