Hwasook B Nam

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Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung HeePaperback, 15 November 2011

Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee
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Print Length
336 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Date Published
15 Nov 2011
ISBN-10
0295988991
ISBN-13
9780295988993

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Building Ships, Building a Nation examines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961-79), of the combative labor union at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation (KSEC), which was Korea's largest shipyard until Hyundai appeared on the scene in the early 1970s. Drawing on the union's extraordinary and extensive archive, Hwasook Nam focuses on the perceptions, attitudes, and discourses of the mostly male heavy-industry workers at the shipyard and on the historical and sociopolitical sources of their militancy. Inspired by legacies of labor activism from the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, KSEC union workers fought for equality, dignity, and a voice for labor as they struggled to secure a living wage that would support families.

The standard view of the South Korean labor movement sees little connection between the immediate postwar era and the period since the 1970s and largely denies positive legacies coming from the period of Japanese colonialism in Korea. Contrary to this conventional view, Nam charts the importance of these historical legacies and argues that the massive mobilization of workers in the postwar years, even though it ended in defeat, had a major impact on the labor movement in the following decades.

Product Details

Author:
Hwasook B Nam
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 November 2011
Dimensions:
22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
0295988991
ISBN-13:
9780295988993
Language:
English
Location:
Seattle
Pages:
336
Weight:
544.31 gm

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