A "woman-in-the-sky": female workers on strike in colonial Pyongyang -- Factory women in the socialist imagination: the 1930s -- Coping with women strikers: nation, class, and gender under colonial rule -- Factory women in the postwar settlement -- Women workers in industrializing Korea --...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Legacies of Colonialism and the Early Cold War Years -- 1. Worker Military in the Postwar Years -- 2. Anticommunism, Labor Rights, and Organized Labor: The Early 1950s -- Part II: The Emergence of a Democratic Union -- 3. KSEC...