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Building Ships, Building a Nation - Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee (Paperback)
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Building Ships, Building a Nation - Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee (Paperback)
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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.
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