David Gray

My publications to date trace the efforts of employers, managers, and their allies to sell American workers on the rewards of work since 1900 within broader historical contexts, especially management crusades against labor unions and the New Deal. I chart this history in my 2020 book, Work Better, Live Better: Motivation, Labor, and Management Ideology (University of Massachusetts Press). My current research projects center on punk, post-punk, and cultural memory in spaces such as podcasting, museums, and memoirs.

Research Interests:

Work & Society; Management Ideologies; Workplace Propaganda; Punk, Post-Punk and Cultural Memory