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"Labor is Not a Commodity!"
Philipp Reick
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Description for "Labor is Not a Commodity!"
Paperback. Num Pages: 237 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140. .
Analyzing the history of the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century New York City and Berlin, this book explores what Karl Polanyi has termed the "fictitious commodification" of labor. Despite the concept's significance for present-day social movements, European and North American historiography has largely ignored the impact of free-market rhetoric on the formation of organized labor. Filling this gap, Philipp Reick provides both a contribution to the current reevaluation of Polanyian thought and theory and an interdisciplinary investigation of the trans-Atlantic transmission of ideas. As Reick demonstrates, while on both sides of the Atlantic workers opposed the unchecked ... Read more
Analyzing the history of the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century New York City and Berlin, this book explores what Karl Polanyi has termed the "fictitious commodification" of labor. Despite the concept's significance for present-day social movements, European and North American historiography has largely ignored the impact of free-market rhetoric on the formation of organized labor. Filling this gap, Philipp Reick provides both a contribution to the current reevaluation of Polanyian thought and theory and an interdisciplinary investigation of the trans-Atlantic transmission of ideas. As Reick demonstrates, while on both sides of the Atlantic workers opposed the unchecked ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Campus Verlag Germany
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Number of Pages
237
Place of Publication
Frankfurt, Germany
ISBN
9783593506272
SKU
V9783593506272
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About Philipp Reick
Philipp Reick has been a visiting scholar at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and, since 2015, is a Martin Buber Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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