Building ships, building a nation Korea's democratic unionism under Park Chung Hee / Hwasook Nam.

Author/creator Nam, Hwasook Bergquist, 1959-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoSeattle : University of Washington Press,
Descriptionxii, 372 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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Subjects
Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation--Management. --History.
Shipbuilding industry--Employees. --Labor unions. --Korea (South). --History. --20th century.
Labor movement--Korea (South). --History. --20th century.

SeriesKorean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. ^A230373
Contents Worker militancy in the postwar years -- Anticommunism, labor rights, and organized labor: the early 1950s -- KSEC workers in the 1950s -- The KSEC union in the political upheavals of 1960-61 -- Consolidation of a democratic union -- Rationalization and resistance -- Development versus democracy: the late 1960s -- Privatization and the suppression of labor, 1968-69 -- Shipbuilding workers under authoritarian rule: the 1970s -- Shipbuilding for the world market and resurging labor militancy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-361) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008030226
ISBN9780295988672 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0295988673 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0295988991 (pbk.)
ISBN9780295988993 (pbk.)