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Heroes and Toilers - Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 (Paperback)
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Heroes and Toilers - Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 (Paperback)
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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.
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