This study considers South Korean economic development from the perspective of young female factory workers, who grapple with defining their roles in respect to marriage and motherhood. Kim explores the women's individual and collective struggles to improve their positions and examines their links with other political forces within the labor movement. She analyzes how female workers envision their place in society, how they cope with economic and social marginalization in their daily lives, and how they develop strategies for a better future.
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"Going beyond abstract economic indicators and anecdotes, Kim...offers a rich, sensitive ethnography based on participant-observation as a factory worker in the late 1980's..." Charles Armstrong, ILWCH
"...sharp and very original observation on the uneasy and quite complex relationship between college educated activists and women workers." Journal of Asian Studies
"...sharp and very original observation on the uneasy and quite complex relationship between college educated activists and women workers." Journal of Asian Studies
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This study considers South Korean economic development from the perspective of young female factory workers, who grapple with defining their roles in respect to marriage and motherhood. Kim explores the women's individual and collective struggles to improve their positions and examines ir links with other political forces within the labor movement. She analyzes how female workers envision their place in society, how they cope with economic and social marginalization in their daily lives, and how they develop strategies for a better future.
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THIS book examines the lives of young women factory workers in the Masan Free Export Zone (MAFEZ) in South Korea, and endeavors to provide an understanding of the ways in which these women both accommodate and resist the dominating forces of global capitalism and South Korean versions of patriarchy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dowry saving, industrial soldiers, labor uprising, single women workers, subcontracting factories, women production workers, disguised worker, married women workers, women factory workers, most women workers, electronics workers, former factory workers, electronics factory, electronics factories, million won, subcontracting firms, overtime work Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Korean, Cho Soon, Choi Jang Jip, United States, Free Export Zone, Catholic Women's Center, Council of Workers, Labor Counseling Center, Cho Wha Soon, Park Chung Hee, James Scott, President Park, Catholic Church, Choong Soon Kim, Lee Hyo-chae, Chun Doo Hwan, City Hall, Coalition of Labor Unions, Kim Young Sam, Korean Women's Development Institute, Roh Tae Woo, Soyo Enterprise, Third World, Han'guk Minjungsa, Tongil Pangjik Pokjik T'ujaeng New!
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THIS book examines the lives of young women factory workers in the Masan Free Export Zone (MAFEZ) in South Korea, and endeavors to provide an understanding of the ways in which these women both accommodate and resist the dominating forces of global capitalism and South Korean versions of patriarchy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dowry saving, industrial soldiers, labor uprising, single women workers, subcontracting factories, women production workers, disguised worker, married women workers, women factory workers, most women workers, electronics workers, former factory workers, electronics factory, electronics factories, million won, subcontracting firms, overtime work Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Korean, Cho Soon, Choi Jang Jip, United States, Free Export Zone, Catholic Women's Center, Council of Workers, Labor Counseling Center, Cho Wha Soon, Park Chung Hee, James Scott, President Park, Catholic Church, Choong Soon Kim, Lee Hyo-chae, Chun Doo Hwan, City Hall, Coalition of Labor Unions, Kim Young Sam, Korean Women's Development Institute, Roh Tae Woo, Soyo Enterprise, Third World, Han'guk Minjungsa, Tongil Pangjik Pokjik T'ujaeng New!
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- Women Politics And Empowerment (Women In The Political Economy) by Ann Bookman on 4 pages
- State and Society in Contemporary Korea by Hagen Koo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Kwangju Uprising: Shadows Over the Regime in South Korea (Westview Special Studies on East Asia) by Donald N. Clark in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Of Common Cloth: Women in the Global Textile Industry by Wendy Chapkis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor (Suny Series in the Anthropology of Work) by June Nash in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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