{"product_id":"9783593506272","title":"\"Labor Is Not a Commodity!\": The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAnalyzing 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.\u003cp\u003eAs Reick demonstrates, while on both sides of the Atlantic workers opposed the unchecked commodification of labor power as a violation of their political, social, and economic rights, the emerging movements for protection from commodification did not promote a universalist concept of rights. By showing that American and German workers drew upon a strikingly similar rationality when formulating demands, this book reveals that we cannot label either the US labor movement as a deviation from the supposed norm of industrial contestation or its German counterpart as the embodiment of that norm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Campus Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040893321456,"sku":"9783593506272","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783593506272_p0.jpg?v=1763726553","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783593506272","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}