Heroes and Toilers : : Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 / / Cheehyung Harrison Kim.
In search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growth, the government stressed order and consistency in everyday life at both work and home. In Heroes and Toilers, Cheehyung Harrison Kim offers an unpreced...
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Kim, Cheehyung Harrison, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Heroes and Toilers : Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 / Cheehyung Harrison Kim. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019] ©2018 1 online resource : 27 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Postwar North Korea -- CHAPTER 1. The Historical Concept of Work -- CHAPTER 2. Work as State Practice -- CHAPTER 3. Producing the Everyday Life of Work -- CHAPTER 4. The Rhythm of Everyday Work, in Six Parts -- CHAPTER 5. Vinalon City -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growth, the government stressed order and consistency in everyday life at both work and home. In Heroes and Toilers, Cheehyung Harrison Kim offers an unprecedented account of life and labor in postwar North Korea that brings together the roles of governance and resistance.Kim traces the state's pursuit of progress through industrialism and examines how ordinary people challenged it every step of the way. Even more than coercion or violence, he argues, work was crucial to state control. Industrial labor was both mode of production and mode of governance, characterized by repetitive work, mass mobilization, labor heroes, and the insistence on convergence between living and working. At the same time, workers challenged and reconfigured state power to accommodate their circumstances-coming late to work, switching jobs, fighting with bosses, and profiting from the black market, as well as following approved paths to secure their livelihood, resolve conflict, and find happiness. Heroes and Toilers is a groundbreaking analysis of postwar North Korea that avoids the pitfalls of exoticism and exceptionalism to offer a new answer to the fundamental question of North Korea's historical development. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022) Industrial management Korea (North). Industrial organization Korea (North). Work Social aspects Korea (North) History 20th century. Work Korea (North) History 20th century. HISTORY / Asia / Korea. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package 9783110649826 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606607 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2019 English 9783110610178 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2019 9783110606195 ZDB-23-DEG print 9780231185301 https://doi.org/10.7312/kim-18530 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231546096 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231546096/original |
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Kim, Cheehyung Harrison, Kim, Cheehyung Harrison, Heroes and Toilers : Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 / Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Postwar North Korea -- CHAPTER 1. The Historical Concept of Work -- CHAPTER 2. Work as State Practice -- CHAPTER 3. Producing the Everyday Life of Work -- CHAPTER 4. The Rhythm of Everyday Work, in Six Parts -- CHAPTER 5. Vinalon City -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Postwar North Korea -- CHAPTER 1. The Historical Concept of Work -- CHAPTER 2. Work as State Practice -- CHAPTER 3. Producing the Everyday Life of Work -- CHAPTER 4. The Rhythm of Everyday Work, in Six Parts -- CHAPTER 5. Vinalon City -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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