Gender, Work and Resistance
South Korean Textile Industry in the 1970s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3986706 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mikyoung Kim (0000-0003-4420-9642, a Hiroshima Peace Institute-Hiroshima City University , Hiroshima, Japan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411-430 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00472336.2011.582711 |
| OpenAlex | W1976491790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 27 |
This paper examines the forces behind South Korean women workers' labour activism in the 1970s, an era of rapid export-orientated industrialisation. Most of the labour strikes initiated by women occurred in the labour-intensive manufacturing sector, and they were in sharp contrast to the overall labour quiescence of male workers during the same period. The actions of South Korean women refute widely held assumptions about the docility of Asian women workers. This case study suggests that women rebel when their lives undergo drastic changes under a set of macro and micro circumstances. Women dialectically interact with the capitalist-patriarchal structure as conscious human agents, and the result of such interaction is their gender- and class-based collective resistance
Economics · Industrialisation · Labour economics · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Textile industry · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |