{"product_id":"women-in-the-sky-9781501758263","title":"Women in the Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 John K. Fairbank Prize and the 2023 James B. Palais Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen in the Sky \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eexamines Korean women factory workers'' century-long activism, from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on gender politics both in the labor movement and in the larger society.\u003c\/b\u003e It highlights several key moments in colonial and postcolonial Korean history when factory women commanded the attention of the wider public, including the early-1930s rubber shoe workers'' general strike in Pyongyang, the early-1950s textile workers'' struggle in South Korea, the 1970s democratic union movement led by female factory workers, and women workers'' activism against neoliberal restructuring in recent decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHwasook Nam asks why women workers in South Korea have been relegated to the periphery in activist and mainstream narratives despite a century of persistent militant struggle and indisputable contributions to the labor movement and successful democracy mo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. A \"Woman-in-the-Sky\": Female Workers on Strike in Colonial Pyongyang\u003cbr\u003e 2. Factory Women in the Socialist Imagination: The 1930s\u003cbr\u003e 3. Coping with Women Strikers: Nation, Class, and Gender under Colonial Rule\u003cbr\u003e 4. Factory Women in the Postwar Settlement: The 1950s\u003cbr\u003e 5. Women Workers in Industrializing Korea: From the 1960s to the 1980s\u003cbr\u003e 6. Female Strikers in Recent Decades and the Politics of Memory\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409352565079,"sku":"9781501758263","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501758263.jpg?v=1730506521","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-in-the-sky-9781501758263","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}