...militancy which little attention has been paid. Given that critical accounts of capitalist modernity in northeast Asia have been overshadowed by economic success stories, this book, threaded along the line of workers' lived experiences and culture, makes an important contribution by providing an alternative narrative of the political economy of modern South Korea.

Koo's central question in this book is: How can we explain the radical transformation of the politically quiescent Korean workers of the 1960s and the 1970s into an organized militant labour force in the 1980s? According to Koo, the existing reductionist-structuralist approach has treated this historical phenomenon as culturally given or natural. This then easily leads to the conclusion that the transition from unorganized to organized labour was discontinuous. He correctly points out the fallacy of what...

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