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Hagen Koo,Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. xii + 240 pp. $45.00 cloth; $17.95 paper; Soon-Won Park,Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999. xiv + 223 pp. $44.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2003

Sun-Hee Yoon
Sun-Hee Yoon
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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Hagen Koo's recent book is the most comprehensive study on the Korean working class from the 1960s to the 1990s available in the English language. This study is a laudable attempt in the right direction towards balancing the overabundance of studies on economic development that focus on the role of the state generally to the detriment of the history of labor.

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 64 , October 2003 , pp. 189 - 192
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© 2003 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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