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  title info:
    title: Heroes and toilers
    sub title: work as life in postwar North Korea, 1953-1961
  name:
    name part: Kim, Cheehyung Harrison
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 261 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In North Korea in the decade following the Korean War, labor became the defining means of state control and national unity. In pursuit of rapid industrial growth, the North Korean state stressed order and consistency in everyday life, at both work and home. In Heroes and Toilers, Cheehyung Harrison Kim offers an unprecedented account of life and labor in postwar North Korea that looks at both governance and popular resistance. Kim traces the state's pursuit of progress through industrialism and examines how ordinary people challenged the state every step of the way. More than coercion or violence, he argues, work was crucial to state control. Industrial labor was both mode of production and mode of governance, characterized by repetitive work, mass mobilization, labor heroes and the insistence on convergence between living and working. At the same time, workers challenged and reconfigured state power to accommodate their circumstances, coming late to work, switching jobs, fighting with bosses and profiting from the black market, as well as following approved paths to secure their livelihood, resolve conflict and find happiness. Heroes and Toilers is a groundbreaking analysis of postwar North Korea that avoids the pitfalls of exoticism and exceptionalism to offer a new answer to the fundamental question of North Korea's historical development.
  table of contents: Introduction: postwar North Korea: the era of work -- The historical concept of work -- Work as state practice -- Producing the everyday life of work -- The rhythm of everyday work, in six parts -- Vinalon city : industrialism as socialist everyday life -- Afterword: The negation of work and other everyday maneuvers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Cheehyung Harrison Kim.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-kn---
  subject:
    topic: Work
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Korea (North)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Korea (North)
    topic: Social life and customs
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Industrial organization
    geographic: Korea (North)
  subject:
    topic: Industrial management
    geographic: Korea (North)
  classification: DS935.3 .K45 2018
  classification: 951.93
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
  identifier: 9780231185301
  identifier: 0231185308
  identifier: 9780231546096
  identifier: 2018016927
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180716
    record change date: 20190122151150.0
    record identifier: in00004016880