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Seung-kyung Kim, Class Struggle or Family Struggle: The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ix + 206 pp. $49.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2001

Charles K. Armstrong
Charles K. Armstrong
Affiliation:
Columbia University
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Abstract

Probably no other country in recent decades has experienced economic reversals of fortune as dramatic as South Korea's, rising from economic “basket case,” in the estimation of the US State Department, to economic “miracle” in the 1960s and 1970s, but now mired in an economic crisis with no easy end in sight. Kim's Class Struggle or Family Struggle? examines the people who, more than any other single group, bore the burden of South Korea's transformation from agricultural backwater to industrial powerhouse: young, low-wage, female factory workers. Specifically, Kim focuses on workers in the Masan Free Export Zone (MAFEZ), established by the Park Chung Hee military government in 1970 to spearhead South Korea's new export-led industrialization program.

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 55 , April 1999 , pp. 215 - 217
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© 1999 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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