David Brody (born June 5, 1930) is an American historian, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of California-Davis.
But, in the end, what turned me to labor history was the discovery in graduate school of how interesting the problems and how rich the materials were for that subject.
While I ended up writing about iron and steelworkers, I had, in fact, started my thesis believing my topic was about World War I and its impact on popular ideology!
He has written numerous articles and book-length treatments of the ethical, organizational and social construction of work and employment.
He won a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1983, and was appointed as a senior professor in the Fulbright Program in 1975.