Heroes and toilers : work as life in postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
[2018]
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/kim-18530 |
Table of 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
- Conclusion: The negation of work and other everyday maneuvers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.