Class Struggle or Family Struggle?
The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea
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- Author: Seung-kyung Kim, University of Maryland, College Park
- Date Published: June 2009
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- isbn: 9780521114653
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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 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.
Read more- Contributes both to feminist understandings of women, work and family, and to anthropological literature on resistance
- Humanizes 'Korean economic miracle' by examining its impact on female workers' lives
- Complements recent anthropological studies of Korean conglomerates and white-collar employees; addresses women's role in labour and trade unions
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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
See more reviews"...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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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521114653
- length: 236 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- contains: 3 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface: field, subject, author
Acknowledgements
Language Note
1. Women caught between global capitalism and South Korean patriarchy
2. The process of production in the Masan Free Export Zone
3. The myth of social mobility: its creation and reproduction among women workers
4. Labor militancy and collective action
5. The making of working class identity: students' theories and workers' lives
6. Conclusion
References
Index.
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