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Format: 1 online resource : , 27 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780231546096

Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , INTRODUCTION. Postwar North Korea -- , CHAPTER 1. The Historical Concept of Work -- , CHAPTER 2. Work as State Practice -- , CHAPTER 3. Producing the Everyday Life of Work -- , CHAPTER 4. The Rhythm of Everyday Work, in Six Parts -- , CHAPTER 5. Vinalon City -- , CONCLUSION -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/kim-18530

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/kim-18530

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Format: 1 online resource (280 p.) : , 1 b&w illustration

ISBN: 0-8248-9643-2

Series Statement: Hawai'i Studies on Korea

Content: Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae’s first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as the generation’s leading resistance poet. Dawn of Labor is an enduring classic that shook a society, transformed lives, and demonstrated the power of poetry. The war of night labor once over,I pour cold soju over my aching heart.Ah . . . I can’t go on like this for long.For sure, I can’t go on like this. —“Dawn of Labor”If I ever kill myself, I’ll probably do it at dawn. —“For a Peaceful Evening”We too want to become heaven.Not a dark clouded heaventhat presses down,but a clear blue heavenover a world that lifts one another.—“Heaven”

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Note on Romanization, Translation, and Glossary -- , PART I Our Love, Our Unrelenting Life -- , Heaven -- , No Way to Stop -- , A Newlywed’s Diary -- , Made for Each Other -- , While I Mend the Bedding -- , How Much? -- , Where Will We Go? -- , The Han River -- , Longing -- , The Bar Wagon -- , Garibong Market -- , Calling for Fingerprints -- , English Conversation -- , Off to Rot -- , Record of My Journey with Men -- , Incomprehensible Tales -- , Becoming Wise -- , PART II Dawn of Labor -- , Bargain Sale -- , The Dream of an Apprentice -- , Spring -- , Sleepiness -- , Working on Sunday -- , A Hand Grave -- , Maybe -- , When I Give You Up -- , A Real Worker -- , For a Peaceful Evening -- , Dawn of Labor -- , No Other Way -- , Sunset -- , PART III For a New Land -- , Love -- , The Wind to the Stones -- , Searching for Food -- , Confrontation -- , A Song about Leaving -- , Am I Drifting? -- , Samcheong Reeducation Camp I -- , Mother -- , A Beautiful Confession -- , I Am Nothing Special -- , Walls -- , Illusions -- , Dawn of Labor in Korean -- , Glossary -- , The Worker-Poet in Mass Culture -- , Poet Militant, Poet Inspirational -- , About Park Nohae -- , About the Translators and Contributor , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8248-9404-9

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824896430

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Format: xii, 261 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten

ISBN: 9780231185301

Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Content: 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

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780231546096

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780231546096

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Kim, Cheehyung Harrison, author Heroes and toilers New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Language: English

Keywords: Nordkorea ; Arbeitswelt ; Alltag ; Geschichte 1953-1961

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Format: 1 online resource : , 27 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780231546096

Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , INTRODUCTION. Postwar North Korea -- , CHAPTER 1. The Historical Concept of Work -- , CHAPTER 2. Work as State Practice -- , CHAPTER 3. Producing the Everyday Life of Work -- , CHAPTER 4. The Rhythm of Everyday Work, in Six Parts -- , CHAPTER 5. Vinalon City -- , CONCLUSION -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/kim-18530

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/kim-18530

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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 0-231-54609-2

Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , INTRODUCTION. Postwar North Korea -- , CHAPTER 1. The Historical Concept of Work -- , CHAPTER 2. Work as State Practice -- , CHAPTER 3. Producing the Everyday Life of Work -- , CHAPTER 4. The Rhythm of Everyday Work, in Six Parts -- , CHAPTER 5. Vinalon City -- , CONCLUSION -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-231-18530-8

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/kim-18530