Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961
ISBN: 9780231546096
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Work -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century;

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.

Kim Cheehyung Harrison :

Cheehyung Harrison Kim is the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri.Cheehyung Harrison Kim is assistant professor of history at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.


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