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Heroes and Toilers : Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 / Cheehyung Harrison Kim.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 27 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231185301
  • 9780231546096
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.9304/3 23
LOC classification:
  • BF481 .K45 2018
  • BF481
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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