Heroes and Toilers - Work As Life in Postwar North Korea, 19531961

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Postwar North Korea, the Era of Work
1. The Historical Concept of Work
2. Work as State Practice
3. Producing the Everyday Life of Work
4. The Rhythm of Everyday Work, in Six Parts
5. Vinalon City: Industrialism as Socialist Everyday Life
Conclusion: The Negation of Work and Other Everyday Maneuvers
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Cheehyung Harrison Kim is associate professor of history at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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.

Additional text

Heroes and Toilers presents a counterargument to the claims that North Korea is an unknowable black box in the form of a cogent, balanced, and rigorously researched narrative that will resonate with historians, social scientists, and scholars of Korean studies.

Product details

• Authors: Cheehyung Harrison Kim
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780231185318
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18531-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, Asian History, History and Archaeology, North Korea, C 1945 To C 1960, Korean history