Building Ships, Building a Nation

Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee

By: Hwasook B. Nam

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Hardcover | 15 November 2011

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Building Ships, Building a Nation examines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961-79), of the combative labor union at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation (KSEC), which was Korea's largest shipyard until Hyundai appeared on the scene in the early 1970s. Drawing on the union's extraordinary and extensive archive, Hwasook Nam focuses on the perceptions, attitudes, and discourses of the mostly male heavy-industry workers at the shipyard and on the historical and sociopolitical sources of their militancy. Inspired by legacies of labor activism from the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, KSEC union workers fought for equality, dignity, and a voice for labor as they struggled to secure a living wage that would support families.

The standard view of the South Korean labor movement sees little connection between the immediate postwar era and the period since the 1970s and largely denies positive legacies coming from the period of Japanese colonialism in Korea. Contrary to this conventional view, Nam charts the importance of these historical legacies and argues that the massive mobilization of workers in the postwar years, even though it ended in defeat, had a major impact on the labor movement in the following decades.

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"This is a superb work. In its appreciation of the dynamic character of the politics of labor at the plant level, it has no peer." - Andrew Gordon, Harvard University "This first-rate scholarly work throws light on a period of South Korea's labor history that has received little attention and has been largely misunderstood. Hwasook Nam demonstrates the historical linkages connecting South Korea's contemporary labor movement to the labor activism during the immediate postwar period as well as to the colonial legacy of labor mobilization." - Hagen Koo, University of Hawai'i

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
The legacies of Colonialism and the early cold War Years
Worker Militancy in the Postwar Years	p. 15
Anticommunism, Labor Rights, and Organized Labor: The Early 1950s	p. 37
The Emergence of a democratic Union
KSEC Workers in the 1950s	p. 57
The KSEC Union in the Political Upheavals of 1960-61	p. 71
Consolidation of a Democratic Union	p. 89
Rationalization and Resistance	p. 117
Development over democracy
Development versus Democracy: The Late 1960s	p. 135
Privatization and the Suppression of Labor, 1968-69	p. 156
Shipbuilding Workers under Authoritarian Rule: The 1970s	p. 183
Shipbuilding for the World Market and Resurging Labor Militancy	p. 200
The KSEC Union Archive Document File List, 1960-79	p. 221
The Labor Charter of 1948	p. 225
A Comparison of Two Contracts, 1968 and 1971	p. 227
Notes	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 345
Index	p. 362
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