Service Economies : Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea /

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Service Economies presents an alternative narrative of South Korean modernity by examining how working-class labor occupies a central space in linking the United States and Asia to South Korea's changing global position from a U.S. neocolony to a subempire. Making surprising and revelatory conn...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lee, Jin-kyung (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Sex-oriented businesses.
Service industries.
Militarism.
Diplomatic relations.
Economic policy.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Militarisme > Coree du Sud.
Industrie pornographique > Coree du Sud.
Services (Industrie) > Coree du Sud.
Militarism > Korea (South)
Sex-oriented businesses > Korea (South)
Service industries > Korea (South)
United States.
Korea (South)
États-Unis > Relations exterieures > Coree du Sud.
Coree du Sud > Relations exterieures > États-Unis.
Coree du Sud > Politique economique.
United States > Foreign relations > Korea (South)
Korea (South) > Foreign relations > United States.
Korea (South) > Economic policy.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Service Economies presents an alternative narrative of South Korean modernity by examining how working-class labor occupies a central space in linking the United States and Asia to South Korea's changing global position from a U.S. neocolony to a subempire. Making surprising and revelatory connections, Jin-kyung Lee analyzes South Korean military labor in the Vietnam War, domestic female sex workers, South Korean prostitution for U.S. troops, and immigrant/migrant labor from Asia in contemporary South Korea.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (408 pages).
ISBN:9780816675180

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