ABSTRACT
Polanyi claimed that what appeared primarily as an economic problem was essentially a social one, while the working class is exploited by the very fact of the extraction of surplus value, it may appear that an exploited worker is financially better off having been exploited. Showing how, at the heart of the double movement, is a mobilization by labor to regulate and constrain the labor market through protective legislation, trade unions, social insurance, and so on. Her work focuses on global labor struggles and the politico-economic structures of global capitalism. Polanyian unrest, shows Silver, is the backlash against the unmaking of working classes by workers whose long-established social compacts are being unmade by global capital's relocation to the Global South. Marxian unrest in contrast is, according to Silver, the struggles of newly made working classes to establish certain fundamental rights, working conditions, and social protections.
