David Brody
Summary
David Brody (born June 5, 1930) is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California-Davis.Brody was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to Barnet and Ida (Gulker) Brody, who were immigrants to the United States. Working his way through Harvard University, he received his bachelor's degree in 1952, a master's degree in 1953 and Ph.D. in 1958.He married Susan Schapiro in 1955. The couple have two daughters and a son.As Brody explains, he did not intend to become a labor historian:Brody's research focuses on the American labor movement and American history. Along with David Montgomery and Herbert Gutman, he is credited with founding the field of "new labor history" in North America, which examined working-class culture rather than simply workers' organizations as a source of history.Brody's most coherent statement of the "new labor history" can be found in his article titled "The Old Labor History and the New: In Search of an American Working Class" (Labor History, 20[1979]: 111–26).Brody rose to prominence following the 1969 publication of his pioneering history of early steelworker unions, The Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era, a book based on his doctoral.
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AOL’s Ad.com Gets ‘Friended’; Sharethrough Adds Digital Vet Keane
Here’s today’s AdExchanger. com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL’s Ad. com Gets ‘Friended’ As AOL Networks head Ned Brody plans to refine the company’s supply side offerings, its demand side, third party ad network is likely to see a boost now that it has access to inventory from the Facebook Exchange.
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Shameless: when TV shows overstay their welcome
There can often be commercial pressure to keep a hit show going, even if no artistic reason. So when is enough enough?.
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Gripping and daring, Homeland raised questions British TV needs to answer
As with Victorian novels, much of its power comes from the space available for narrative development, writes Mark Lawson.
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A faith-based lesson for Paul Ryan
There is something un-Christian about the Gospel According to Paul Ryan. So, at least, says Ryan’s Catholic Church.
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Gingrich: 'It's Not Fair'
Newt Gingrich said over the weekend that "lies" had been told about his wife, Callista Gingrich, that were "to her disadvantage" during the campaign, and griped that "it's not fair. ".
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Ex-MSLO Exec Janet Balis Returns To Chart AOL Ad Sales Strategy
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is bringing back former ad sales development head Janet Balis to lead sales strategy, marketing and partnerships for the company’s advertising unit. She will report to Ned Brody, chief revenue officer.
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AOL Display Revenue Back From the Dead
ADOTAS – AOL posted advertising gains for the first time since 2008, according to its Q2 2011 earnings report released this morning. Still, the increases are not enough to bring the “You’ve Got Mail!” company back to life.
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AOL Earnings: Shares Plummet Despite Ad Revenue Gains
The addition of the Huffington Post and other acquisitions allowed AOL chairman Tim Armstrong to tell Wall Street what it has long waited to hear: the internet company’s global advertising revenues grew in the second quarter, the first time that’s happened since 2008.
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AOL’s Ad Chief Out in Reorg. A Sign of Trouble?
It’s crunch time at AOL, where chairman Tim Armstrong has been promising investors that the organic growth in advertising revenue they’ve long been hoping to see will finally start to be a reality in the second half of 2011. So what does it mean that Armstrong just bade farewell to his hand-picked head of global ad sales?.
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Palin: I Want To Help The Media, I Have A Journalism Degree
Sarah Palin says she could teach members of the mainstream media a thing or two when it comes to producing quality reporting and news coverage.
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