Heroes and Toilers (eBook)

Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961

Cheehyung Harrison Kim (Autor)

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2018
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54609-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Heroes and Toilers offers an unprecedented account of life and labor in postwar North Korea that looks at both governance and popular resistance. Cheehyung Harrison Kim traces the state's pursuit of progress through industrialism and examines how ordinary people challenged the state every step of the way.

KimCheehyung Harrison:

Cheehyung Harrison Kim is the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri.Cheehyung Harrison Kim is assistant professor of history at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa.

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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.

Autor

Cheehyung Harrison Kim is assistant professor of history at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Postwar North Korea, the Era of Work1. The Historical Concept of Work2. Work as State Practice3. Producing the Everyday Life of Work4. The Rhythm of Everyday Work, in Six Parts5. Vinalon City: Industrialism as Socialist Everyday LifeConclusion: The Negation of Work and Other Everyday ManeuversNotesBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Zusatzinfo: 27 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54609-2 / 0231546092
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54609-6 / 9780231546096