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Building ships, building a nation : Korea's democratic unionism under Park Chung Hee /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nam, Hwasook Bergquist, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2009]
Series:Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
Subjects:
Labor movement > Korea (South) > History > 20th century.
Shipbuilding industry > Employees > Labor unions > Korea (South) > History > 20th century.
Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation > Management > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Worker militancy in the postwar years
  • Anticommunism, labor rights, and organized labor: the early 1950s
  • KSEC workers in the 1950s
  • The KSEC union in the political upheavals of 1960-61
  • Consolidation of a democratic union
  • Rationalization and resistance
  • Development versus democracy: the late 1960s
  • Privatization and the suppression of labor, 1968-69
  • Shipbuilding workers under authoritarian rule: the 1970s
  • Shipbuilding for the world market and resurging labor militancy.