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Contemporary South Korean Society : a Critical Perspective.

The growing importance of the Korean economy in the global arena and the spread of the so-called 'Korean wave' in Asia mean there is an increasing desire to understand contemporary Korean Society. To this end, this book provides a critical and progressive analysis of the diverse issues tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cho, Hee-Yeon
Otros Autores: Surendra, Lawrence, Cho, Hyo-Je
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge advances in Korean studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 The structure of the South Korean developmental regime and its transformation: an analysis of the developmental regime of statist mobilization and authoritarian integration in the anticommunist regimentation; 2 Gender inequality and patriarchal order recontexualized; 3 Regionalism: its origins and substance with competition and exclusion; 4 Economic development and women's status in Korea; 5 Social class and income inequality in Korea
  • 6 Changes in social movements in the post-dictatorship context in South Korea
  • focused on three dimensions7 Growth and crisis of the Korean citizens' movement; 8 Two concepts of human rights in contemporary Korea; 9 A frame analysis of women's policies of Korean government and women's movements in the 1980s and 1990s; 10 The netizen movement: a new wave in the social movements of Korea; 11 Corruption in government-business relations in Republic of Korea; 12 The environmental movement in South Korea; 13 South Korea
  • the ""making"" of a working class in a newly industrialized country
  • 14 Neoliberal globalization and labor relations in Korea15 Labor movements in democratized Korea: an old or new social movement?; 16 Mobilizing public opinion for/against foreign labor policies in Korea, 1995-2005: NGOs, trade unions, and employers' associations in contested terrain; Index