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Women in the Sky : Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea
Author
Title
Women in the Sky : Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea / Hwasook Nam.
ISBN
9781501758287
9781501758270
9781501758263
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (294 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"This book examines Korean women factory workers' century-long activism from the 1920s to the present in broad historical context with a focus on gender politics in the labor movement and in the larger society"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
A "woman-in-the-sky": female workers on strike in colonial Pyongyang
Factory women in the socialist imagination: the 1930s
Coping with women strikers: nation, class, and gender under colonial rule
Factory women in the postwar settlement
Women workers in industrializing Korea
Female strikers in recent decades and the politics of memory.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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