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They Are Not Machines - Korean Women Workers and their Fight for Democratic Trade Unionism in the 1970s (Paperback)
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They Are Not Machines - Korean Women Workers and their Fight for Democratic Trade Unionism in the 1970s (Paperback)
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The multi-faceted tensions created in developing countries between
a burgeoning popular desire for democracy and the harsh imperatives
of modernisation and industrialisation are nowhere more evident
than in the so-called 'Asian tiger' nations. Of all those nascent
economies, South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s stands pre-eminent
for the magnitude and speed of its development and the
extraordinarily oppressive and inhumane conditions that its labour
force, mainly women and young girls, were compelled to endure. The
author of this book was one of those young girls who suffered in
the warren of sweat-shop garment factories in the slums of central
Seoul. With little or no support from male co-workers, and despite
their political naivety and the traditionally subordinate status of
Korean females, the women textile and garment workers confronted
the ruling authority at all levels. The author's mother was one of
their leaders, and her eldest brother sacrificed his life for their
cause. Despite appalling state-directed violence, betrayal by
erstwhile colleagues, the chicanery and mendacity of employers'
cooperatives and countless other setbacks, these uneducated and
overworked women finally succeeded in forming the first fully
democratic trade union in the history of Korea. Based on compelling
personal accounts this is the first published account of the
women's struggle, and it throws much light on the process of
modernisation and industrialisation in Korea and beyond.
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