Heroes and Toilers : Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 /
Kim, Cheehyung Harrison
Heroes and Toilers : Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 / Cheehyung Harrison Kim. - 1 online resource : 27 b&w illustrations - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Postwar North Korea -- CHAPTER 1. The Historical Concept of Work -- CHAPTER 2. Work as State Practice -- CHAPTER 3. Producing the Everyday Life of Work -- CHAPTER 4. The Rhythm of Everyday Work, in Six Parts -- CHAPTER 5. Vinalon City -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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In search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growth, the government 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 brings together the roles of governance and resistance.Kim traces the state's pursuit of progress through industrialism and examines how ordinary people challenged it every step of the way. Even 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231185301 9780231546096
10.7312/kim-18530 doi
2018016927
Industrial management--Korea (North).
Industrial organization--Korea (North).
Work--Social aspects--History--Korea (North)--20th century.
Work--History--Korea (North)--20th century.
HISTORY / Asia / Korea.
BF481 / .K45 2018 BF481
951.9304/3
Heroes and Toilers : Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 / Cheehyung Harrison Kim. - 1 online resource : 27 b&w illustrations - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Postwar North Korea -- CHAPTER 1. The Historical Concept of Work -- CHAPTER 2. Work as State Practice -- CHAPTER 3. Producing the Everyday Life of Work -- CHAPTER 4. The Rhythm of Everyday Work, in Six Parts -- CHAPTER 5. Vinalon City -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growth, the government 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 brings together the roles of governance and resistance.Kim traces the state's pursuit of progress through industrialism and examines how ordinary people challenged it every step of the way. Even 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231185301 9780231546096
10.7312/kim-18530 doi
2018016927
Industrial management--Korea (North).
Industrial organization--Korea (North).
Work--Social aspects--History--Korea (North)--20th century.
Work--History--Korea (North)--20th century.
HISTORY / Asia / Korea.
BF481 / .K45 2018 BF481
951.9304/3