Research Catalog

Title

"Labor is not a commodity!" : the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century Berlin and New York / Philipp Reick.

Author

Reick, Philipp

Publication

• Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

237 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

The past decades witnessed a powerful return of struggles against what economic historian Karl Polanyi termed the commodification of social life. This book explores how organized workers in two metropolises of the late nineteenth century responded to the commodification of labor. In doing so, it reveals a striking continuity in collective opposition against the unfettered power of free markets. Drawing on contemporary feminist revisions of Polanyian thought, this book illustrates the ambiguous potential of movements for social protection. --Cover.

Series Statement

North American studies ; volume 37

Uniform Title

Nordamerikastudien ; Bd. 37.

Alternative Title

• Movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century Berlin and New York
• The movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century Berlin and New York

Subject

• Hours of labor > Berlin > History > 19th century
• Hours of labor > New York > History > 19th century
• Labor movement > Berlin > History > 19th century
• Labor movement > New York > History > 19th century
• Labor unions > Berlin > History > 19th century
• Labor unions > New York > History > 19th century
• Commodification > Berlin > History > 19th century
• Commodification > New York > History > 19th century
• Working class > Berlin > Social conditions > 19th century
• Working class > New York > Social conditions > 19th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Freie Universität Berlin.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Theory and methods -- Market: the commodification of work and the birth of organized labor -- Polity: shorter hours and the struggle for equality -- Society: shorter hours and the struggle for human rights -- Economy: shorter hours and the struggle for redistribution -- Gender: shorter hours and the protection of female labor -- The past and present of commodification.

ISBN

• 9783593506272
• 9783593435060 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

968686869

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library