{"product_id":"heroes-and-toilers-cheehyung-harrison-kim-9780231185318","title":"Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growth, the government stressed order and consistency in everyday life at both work and home. In \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeroes and Toilers\u003c\/em\u003e, Cheehyung Harrison Kim offers an unprecedented account of life and labor in postwar North Korea that brings together the roles of governance and resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim traces the state's pursuit of progress through industrialism and examines how ordinary people challenged it every step of the way. Even more than coercion or violence, he argues, work was crucial to state control. Industrial labor was both mode of production and mode of governance, characterized by repetitive work, mass mobilization, labor heroes, and the insistence on convergence between living and working. At the same time, workers challenged and reconfigured state power to accommodate their circumstances--coming late to work, switching jobs, fighting with bosses, and profiting from the black market, as well as following approved paths to secure their livelihood, resolve conflict, and find happiness. \u003cem\u003eHeroes and Toilers\u003c\/em\u003e is a groundbreaking analysis of postwar North Korea that avoids the pitfalls of exoticism and exceptionalism to offer a new answer to the fundamental question of North Korea's historical development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cheehyung Harrison Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231185316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231185318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Cheehyung Harrison Kim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990465249535,"sku":"9780231185318","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca494909-0fcb-42aa-bad5-661c322879d1.jpg?v=1683304829","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heroes-and-toilers-cheehyung-harrison-kim-9780231185318","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}