About the Author

David Brody is professor emeritus of history at the University of California Davis. He is the author of Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth-Century Struggle and many other books.

Reviews

"Brody's claims deserve a wide hearing in current political circles, where labor's crisis has been so often ignored."--Washington Post

“A revelatory collection from one of our wisest and most influential scholars of labor history, law, and politics. Brody recovers a vibrant American tradition honoring workplace democracy and civil rights. He helps us understand the assault on those rights in the late twentieth century and how history can inform present-day movements dedicated to expanding individual and collective freedom. This is engaged history at its best.”--Dorothy Sue Cobble, author of The Other Women's Movement