Rural Women and Triple Exploitation in Korean Development

Rural Women and Triple Exploitation in Korean Development
Author: D. Gills
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1999-08-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0333983327

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the unrecognized role played and burden borne by rural women during the last four decades of South Korean economic development. It offers a new critical understanding of the crucial role played by rural women in the Korean economic 'miracle'.

Rural Women and Triple Exploitation in Korean Development

Rural Women and Triple Exploitation in Korean Development
Author: Dong-Sook Shin Gills
Publisher:
Total Pages: 239
Release: 1999
Genre: Korea (South)
ISBN: 9780333734155

There is a relative poverty of literature on rural women in South Korea. This book analyses the 'triple exploitation' of rural women as an integral part of the industrialisation process in Korea since the 1960s. It explores the hidden, but nonetheless very significant, linkages between rural village women, national development and the global economy. Dong-Sook Shin Gills argues that rural women's labour systematically subsidised low-wage labour in manufacturing export industries - upon which economic growth depended. There are many tiers of exploitation: these women are exploited through the subordination of peasant farming to urban industry; through developmentalist ideology; and through societal patriarchal relations. The book includes analysis of empirical data collected by field survey from rural villages. The author concludes that rural women's labour held up the whole edifice of the economic `miracle' of South Korea, right from 'the bottom of the heap'.

State, Rural Women, and Domestication in Korea

State, Rural Women, and Domestication in Korea
Author: Jaok Kwon
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2024-07-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040092918

This book explores the dynamic interactions between the state and society during the industrialization of South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on rural women as a marginalized social group. By illuminating rural women’s interactions with the state and their aspirations for entering the middle class, it effectively reveals insights into the gender and class perspectives of industrialization in South Korea. Utilizing an analysis of personal letters from peasant movement activists, documents and periodicals issued by the Korean Catholic Peasant Women’s Organization, as well as in-depth interviews with farmers, housewives, activists of the peasant movements, and governmental officers, this book represents a reconsideration of state-society relations, as well as a reinterpretation of housewife ideology theory. Highlighting the often-invisible experiences of marginalized rural women, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Korean Studies, Women’s Studies, and Rural Studies.

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad
Author: Hyaeweol Choi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108487432

Choi examines how global Christian networks facilitated the flow of ideas, people and material culture, shaping gendered modernity in Korea.

The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 9, Number 1 (2004)

The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 9, Number 1 (2004)
Author: John Duncan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2004-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442234822

The University of Washington-Korea Studies Program, in collaboration with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, is proud to publish the Journal of Korean Studies. In 1979 Dr. James Palais (PhD Harvard 1968), former UW professor of Korean History edited and published the first volume of the Journal of Korean Studies. For thirteen years it was a leading academic forum for innovative, in-depth research on Korea. In 2004 former editors Gi-Wook Shin and John Duncan revived this outstanding publication at Stanford University. In August 2008 editorial responsibility transferred back to the University of Washington. With the editorial guidance of Clark Sorensen and Donald Baker, the Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) continues to be dedicated to publishing outstanding articles, from all disciplines, on a broad range of historical and contemporary topics concerning Korea. In addition the JKS publishes reviews of the latest Korea-related books. To subscribe to the Journal of Korean Studies or order print back issues, please click here.

Seeking Shelter on the Pacific Rim

Seeking Shelter on the Pacific Rim
Author: Gary Dymski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315499711

This innovative book analyzes the changes that financial globalization is bringing about in the housing and home-finance markets of the United States, Japan, and South Korea, with special attention to the circumstances of women in obtaining housing, credit, and personal security. The book's focus on changes in the residential and housing finance markets serves as a window for an integrated examination of how the liberalization of national financial markets has affected the relationship among all players in each of the three economies - government, markets, and individual citizens. Through this examination Housing Finance Futures develops a new critical response to economic globalization based on a groundbreaking concept, the social efficiency of policy and market shifts.

Rural Development in South Korea

Rural Development in South Korea
Author: William W. Boyer
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1991
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780874134315

After considering the problem of decentralizing rural development in South Korea generally, the authors analyze the proliferation period from 1970 to 1979 of Seemaul Undong--South Korea's so-called New Community Movement -- which was an attempt to achieve an integrated rural development program. The final chapter suggests directions for South Korea and draws implications for development elsewhere.

The Korean Developmental State

The Korean Developmental State
Author: Iain Pirie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134141580

Ian Pirie gives a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of state and economic restructuring in South Korea since the 1997 crisis.