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Author Nam, Hwasook, 1959- author

Title Women in the sky : gender and labor in the making of modern Korea / Hwasook Nam
Published Ithaca [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) : illustrations, map
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2021)
Subject Women in the labor movement -- Korea -- History -- 20th century
Women in the labor movement -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century
Women in the labor movement -- Korea (South) -- History -- 21st century
Manufacturing industries -- Korea -- Employees
Manufacturing industries -- Korea (South) -- Employees
Women employees -- Political aspects -- Korea
Women employees -- Political aspects -- Korea (South)
HISTORY / Asia / Korea.
Manufacturing industries -- Employees
Women in the labor movement
Korea
Korea (South)
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021002500
ISBN 9781501758287
1501758284
9781501758270
1501758276