Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation

by Hagen Koo

Book Overview

Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the factory and to search for justice in society. The working class in South Korea was born in a cultural and political environment extremely hostile to its development,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486963
• ISBN13: 9780801486968
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher