Women in the Sky : : Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea / / Hwasook Nam.
Women in the Sky examines Korean women factory workers' century-long activism, from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on gender politics both in the labor movement and in the larger society. It highlights several key moments in colonial and postcolonial Korean history when factory women co...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) :; 4 b&w halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- MAP
- Introduction
- 1. A “Woman-in-the-Sky”: Female Workers on Strike in Colonial Pyongyang
- 2. Factory Women in the Socialist Imagination: The 1930s
- 3. Coping with Women Strikers: Nation, Class, and Gender under Colonial Rule
- 4. Factory Women in the Postwar Settlement: The 1950s
- 5. Women Workers in Industrializing Korea: From the 1960s to the 1980s
- 6. Female Strikers in Recent Decades and the Politics of Memory
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index