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South Koreans in the Debt Crisis : The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society /

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997-2001). Jesook Song argues that while the government proclaimed that it would guarantee all South Koreans a m...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Song, Jesook, 1969-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • The emergence of the neoliberal welfare state in South Korea
  • The Seoul train station square and the house of freedom
  • "Family breakdown" and invisible homeless women
  • Assumptions and images of homeless women's needs
  • Youth as neoliberal subjects of welfare and labor
  • The dilemma of progressive intellectuals
  • Coda : the pursuit of well-being.