{"product_id":"building-ships-building-a-nation-9780295988993","title":"Building Ships Building a Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961-79), of the combative labor union at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation (KSEC), which was Korea's largest shipyard until Hyundai appeared on the scene in the early 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\".“A pioneering work on contemporary Korean history, \u003ci\u003eBuilding Ships, Building a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e will occupy a central place in the emerging literature of the post-war period.... Nam gives voice and agency to a segment of society and a period of time that were relegated to silence for many years, and in the process profoundly alters our understanding of South Korean state and society.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Asian Studies Association, in awarding the 2011 James B. Palais Book Prize *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Overall, the account is a reminder that economics that fail to capture cultural and historical, and even emotional, context is rather senseless….His comments on labour in Korea bring to life the decades of labour-capital tensions that were, and still are, the backdrop for Korea's economic miracle.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * International Journal of Maritime History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Apart from presenting a case study of a union and its members with microhistorical depth, \u003ci\u003eBuilding Ships, Building a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e fills a lacuna of knowledge on workers in the twentieth century, serving as an indispensable contribution to scholarship on labor relations in contemporary Korea and East Asia.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This wonderful book restores a buried history of union activism in the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation (KSEC) . . . and situates it in the larger context of militant and democratic labor movements in Korean society since the colonial period. . . . It is a welcome addition to the body of critical studies on modern and contemporary Korea that convey nuanced analyses of Korea's social history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Focuses on the mostly male heavy industry workers at the shipyard and on historical and sociopolitical sources of their militancy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Economic Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One | The Legacies of Colonialism and the Early Cold War Years\u003cbr\u003e 1. Worker Militancy in the Postwar Years\u003cbr\u003e 2. Anticommunism, Labor Rights, and Organized Labor: The Early 1950s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two | The Emergence of a Democratic Union\u003cbr\u003e 3 KSEC Workers in the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e 4 The KSEC Union in the Political Upheavals of 1960-61\u003cbr\u003e 5 Consolidation of a Democratic Union\u003cbr\u003e 6 Rationalization and Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Three | Development Over Democracy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Development versus Democracy: The Late 1960s\u003cbr\u003e 8. Privatization and the Suppression of Labor, 1968-69\u003cbr\u003e 9. Shipbuilding Workers under Authoritarian Rule: The 1970s\u003cbr\u003e 10. Shipbuilding for the World Market and Resurging Labor Militancy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A: The KSEC Union Archive Document File List, 1960-79\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: The Labor Charter of 1948\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: A Comparison of Two Contracts, 1968 and 1971\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400917623127,"sku":"9780295988993","price":33.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295988993.jpg?v=1730471942","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/building-ships-building-a-nation-9780295988993","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}