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Dr. Phillip Reick

Dr. Philipp Reick

E-Mail:
philipp.reick@ruhr-uni-bochum.de 

Funktion:
Research Fellow (DFG Eigene Stelle) 

Projekt:
The Forgotten Legacy of Guild Socialism: Toward a Transnational History of Industrial and Economic Democracy (GUISOC)

Forschungsschwerpunkte (Auswahl):

  • Labor History
  • Economic and Industrial Democracy
  • History of Socialist Thought
  • Urban History
  • Social Theory

Beruflicher Werdegang:

Dr. Philipp Reick is a Research Fellow working on his DFG-funded project "The Forgotten Legacy of Guild Socialism: Toward a Transnational History of Industrial and Economic Democracy" (2026 - 2029).  Before coming to Bochum, he was a Martin Buber Postdoctoral Fellow at Hebrew University from 2015 to 2019, a Marie Curie COFUND Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) and Assistant Professor at Aarhus University from 2020 to 2023, and a Marie Curie Individual Fellow at TU Berlin from 2023 to 2025. Philipp studied History and Political Science at the University of Potsdam, UC Berkeley, and the University of Manchester. He received his PhD in 2015 from the Graduate School of North American Studies at FU Berlin. 
Together with Aurélie Andry, Sophia Friedel, and Pedro A. Teixeira, he has established the CAT working group "Democracy at Work: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges for Employee Participation (DemWo)" (2024-2028), which is funded by the Network of European Institutes of Advanced Studies (NETIAS). He also serves as member of the organizing committee of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) working group "Industrial and Economic Democracy."

Publikationen:


  • An experiment in economic democracy: The building guilds of Interwar Britain and Weimar Germany (Studies in Labour History) Liverpool University Press, 15 April 2027.
    https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781807814250          
  • Labor is not a commodity! The movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century Berlin and New York. Frankfurt and New York: Campus, 2016.

Reviews:

  • "Introduction to the Topical Collection Automated Labour: Past, Present, and Future. Challenging Dominant Narratives," together with Magdalena Małecka, Digital Society 24, 5 (2025): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44206-025-00213-7 
  • "If that is socialism, we won't help its advent! The impact of Edward Bellamy's utopian novel 'Looking Backward' on socialist thought in late-nineteenth-century Western Europe," Socialist imaginations: Utopias, myths, and the masses, eds. Stefan Arvidsson, Anja Kirsch, and Jakub Beneš (London: Routledge, 2018), 93-116, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315083759/chapters/10.4324/9781315083759-5 
  • "On the bias of Big Data: A response to Malte Rehbein," H-Soz-Kult, 10 December 2015, http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-2921 
  • "We are the 99%! Zum Selbstbild der deutschen und amerikanischen Arbeiterbewegung in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts," Nebulosa: Figuren des Sozialen 6 (2014): 89-98.