Hwasook Nam is assistant professor of history and international studies at the University of Washington, where she holds the James B. Palais professorship in Korea studies.

".“A pioneering work on contemporary Korean history, Building Ships, Building a Nation will occupy a central place in the emerging literature of the post-war period.... Nam gives voice and agency to a segment of society and a period of time that were relegated to silence for many years, and in the process profoundly alters our understanding of South Korean state and society."

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part One | The Legacies of Colonialism and the Early Cold War Years1. Worker Militancy in the Postwar Years2. Anticommunism, Labor Rights, and Organized Labor: The Early 1950sPart Two | The Emergence of a Democratic Union3 KSEC Workers in the 1950s4 The KSEC Union in the Political Upheavals of 1960-615 Consolidation of a Democratic Union6 Rationalization and ResistancePart Three | Development Over Democracy7. Development versus Democracy: The Late 1960s8. Privatization and the Suppression of Labor, 1968-699. Shipbuilding Workers under Authoritarian Rule: The 1970s10. Shipbuilding for the World Market and Resurging Labor MilitancyAppendix A: The KSEC Union Archive Document File List, 1960-79Appendix B: The Labor Charter of 1948Appendix C: A Comparison of Two Contracts, 1968 and 1971NotesBibliographyIndex

Hwasook Nam is assistant professor of history and international studies at the University of Washington, where she holds the James B. Palais professorship in Korea studies.

".“A pioneering work on contemporary Korean history, Building Ships, Building a Nation will occupy a central place in the emerging literature of the post-war period.... Nam gives voice and agency to a segment of society and a period of time that were relegated to silence for many years, and in the process profoundly alters our understanding of South Korean state and society."

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part One | The Legacies of Colonialism and the Early Cold War Years1. Worker Militancy in the Postwar Years2. Anticommunism, Labor Rights, and Organized Labor: The Early 1950sPart Two | The Emergence of a Democratic Union3 KSEC Workers in the 1950s4 The KSEC Union in the Political Upheavals of 1960-615 Consolidation of a Democratic Union6 Rationalization and ResistancePart Three | Development Over Democracy7. Development versus Democracy: The Late 1960s8. Privatization and the Suppression of Labor, 1968-699. Shipbuilding Workers under Authoritarian Rule: The 1970s10. Shipbuilding for the World Market and Resurging Labor MilitancyAppendix A: The KSEC Union Archive Document File List, 1960-79Appendix B: The Labor Charter of 1948Appendix C: A Comparison of Two Contracts, 1968 and 1971NotesBibliographyIndex

Hwasook Nam is assistant professor of history and international studies at the University of Washington, where she holds the James B. Palais professorship in Korea studies.

".“A pioneering work on contemporary Korean history, Building Ships, Building a Nation will occupy a central place in the emerging literature of the post-war period.... Nam gives voice and agency to a segment of society and a period of time that were relegated to silence for many years, and in the process profoundly alters our understanding of South Korean state and society."

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part One | The Legacies of Colonialism and the Early Cold War Years1. Worker Militancy in the Postwar Years2. Anticommunism, Labor Rights, and Organized Labor: The Early 1950sPart Two | The Emergence of a Democratic Union3 KSEC Workers in the 1950s4 The KSEC Union in the Political Upheavals of 1960-615 Consolidation of a Democratic Union6 Rationalization and ResistancePart Three | Development Over Democracy7. Development versus Democracy: The Late 1960s8. Privatization and the Suppression of Labor, 1968-699. Shipbuilding Workers under Authoritarian Rule: The 1970s10. Shipbuilding for the World Market and Resurging Labor MilitancyAppendix A: The KSEC Union Archive Document File List, 1960-79Appendix B: The Labor Charter of 1948Appendix C: A Comparison of Two Contracts, 1968 and 1971NotesBibliographyIndex