Korean Workers : The Culture and Politics of Class Formation /

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Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the factor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Koo, Hagen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travailleurs > Coree.
Industrie > Organisation, contrôle, etc. > Coree.
Mouvement ouvrier > Coree.
Travail > Conflits > Coree.
Working class.
Labor movement.
Labor disputes.
Industrial organization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
Labor History.
Asian Studies.
Working class > Korea.
Labor movement > Korea.
Labor disputes > Korea.
Industrial organization > Korea.
Korea.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the factory and to search for justice in society. The working class in South Korea was born in a cultural and political environment extremely hostile to its development, Koo says. Korean workers forged their collective identity much more rapidly, however, than did their counterparts in other newly industrialized countries in East Asia. This book investigates how South Korea's once-docile and submissive workers reinvented themselves so quickly into a class with a distinct identity and consciousness. Based on sources ranging from workers' personal writings to union reports to in-depth interviews, this book is a penetrating analysis of the South Korean working-class experience. Koo reveals how culture and politics simultaneously suppressed and facilitated class formation in South Korea. With chapters exploring the roles of women, students, and church organizations in the struggle, the book reflects Koo's broader interest in the social and cultural dimensions of industrial transformation.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages): 6 charts, 11 halftones, 1 map, 11 tables
ISBN:9781501731778

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