Women in the Sky : Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea /

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"This book examines Korean women factory workers' century-long activism from the 1920s to the present in broad historical context with a focus on gender politics in the labor movement and in the larger society"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nam, Hwasook, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women in the labor movement.
Manufacturing industries > Employees.
Women employees > Political aspects > Korea (South)
Women employees > Political aspects > Korea.
Manufacturing industries > Korea (South) > Employees.
Manufacturing industries > Korea > Employees.
Women in the labor movement > Korea (South) > History > 21st century.
Women in the labor movement > Korea (South) > History > 20th century.
Women in the labor movement > Korea > History > 20th century.
Korea (South)
Korea.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A "woman-in-the-sky": female workers on strike in colonial Pyongyang
  • Factory women in the socialist imagination: the 1930s
  • Coping with women strikers: nation, class, and gender under colonial rule
  • Factory women in the postwar settlement
  • Women workers in industrializing Korea
  • Female strikers in recent decades and the politics of memory.

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