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Author Kim, Cheehyung Harrison, author.

Title Heroes and toilers : work as life in postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 / Cheehyung Harrison Kim.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
©2018
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: postwar North Korea: the era of work -- The historical concept of work -- Work as state practice -- Producing the everyday life of work -- The rhythm of everyday work, in six parts -- Vinalon city : industrialism as socialist everyday life -- Afterword: The negation of work and other everyday maneuvers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary 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.
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Subject Work -- Social aspects -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.
Work -- Social aspects.
Korea (North)
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Korea (North) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Manners and customs.
Industrial organization -- Korea (North)
Industrial organization.
Industrial management -- Korea (North)
Industrial management.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Work as life in postwar North Korea, 1953-1961
Other Form: Print version: Kim, Cheehyung Harrison. Heroes and toilers. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] 9780231185301 (DLC) 2018016927
ISBN 9780231546096 (electronic book)
0231546092 (electronic book)
9780231185301 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0231185308

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