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Women in the sky : gender and labor in the making of modern Korea / Hwasook Nam.

Author/creator Nam, Hwasook, 1959- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Ithaca, New York : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
Copyright Notice ©2021
Descriptionxiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Nam, Hwasook, 1959- Women in the sky. Ithaca [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501758270
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2021002499
ISBN9781501758263 hardcover
ISBN1501758268 hardcover
ISBNelectronic publication
ISBNelectronic book

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