Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea
ISBN: 9781684173297
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / Harvard University Asia Center
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Economic history.; Politics and government.; Sub-Saharan Africa.;

This book is a study of labor relations and the first generation of skilled workers in colonial Korea, a subject crucial to the understanding of modernization in twentieth-century Korea. Born in rural Korea, these workers confronted both the colonial experience and the modern workplace as they interacted with Japanese managers and workers. Based on the archives of the Onoda Cement Factory and interviews with surviving workers, this work analyzes the complex relationship between colonialism and modernization.


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